Earlier this summer, The World Health Organization’s cancer agency deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — a “possible” cause of cancer. Another group found it ...

A household sweetener could hold the potential to create an anti-cancer treatment. New research from Hiroshima University in Japan revealed that stevia leaf extract could help fight pancreatic cancer ...

The FDA had been hesitant to approve stevia, in part because an early study showed that some forms of the extract had negative health effects under certain conditions when consumed in large quantities ...

Stevia may provide more benefits than as a zero-calorie sugar substitute. When fermented with bacteria isolated from banana leaves, stevia extract kills off pancreatic cancer cells but doesn't harm ...

image: New research published in the International Journal of Food Science and Technology found steviol glycosides are not altered during the extraction and purification process to make high-purity ...

Here’s what nutrition experts want you to know about stevia's safety, health effects, and how to use this popular sugar ...