Paraguay Lets Itself Be Snatched Away Its Sweetest Treasure

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Milva Ayala is surprised to learn that in European coffee shops it has become common to find stevia envelopes to sweeten the drinks: “How nice it would be here to be the same!” Outside Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay, she and her husband clean their field of ka’a he’e or “sweet grass” in Guaraní, a name known to the stevia here, their country of origin. It was the Guaraní indigenous people who discovered the sweetening properties of this plant, kno…