Just Delicious Diabetic Delights Bakery Makes Way for Steviva Brands
Interview with Donna Nelson (Co-Owner)
Portland, OR, (PRWEB) March 19, 2009
March 19th 2009 - Earlier this year, Just Delicious Diabetic Delights, a Bakery in Portland, Oregon that specializes in sugar free treats for diabetics and low-carb dieters, made a great discovery. While searching the web for affordable alternative sweeteners they came across the Steviva Brands site, featuring the new 100% natural sweetener Fructevia. They purchased a bag to try using it in their specialty-baked goods; the result has been three record-breaking winter months at their store. January and February are traditionally slow months for bakeries, and even with a discerning clientele and the state of the economy, Just Delicious has seen two exceptionally busy months.
Q: How did you hear about Fructevia?
A: Well, I knew about stevia for over a year and found Fructevia online. We ordered it and tried it in our fruit pies and cheesecake and it was great! On our Gluten Free cheese cake it caramelizes beautifully, and generally is far superior to the previous products we have used in the past.
Q: What caught your attention about it exactly?
A: We found that stevia was too concentrated in most of the other products we were researching and we had a hard time finding blends that cut the Stevia content with something natural. (Other sugar substitutes like Splenda, Sunnett and Sweet One are cut with Ace K and Aspartame; both raise questions about health risks for prolonged use.)
The fact that you could use half as much (Fructevia as sugar) really appealed to us. It would have been far less expensive to run a bakery on sugar, but our customers are well informed. They want to know about all of our ingredients.
Q: How do you plan to utilize Fructevia in your baked goods?
A: Fruit Pies, Cheesecake, Bavarian Cream are already being made with great success and sales using Fructevia. Cookies and a cranberry almond coffee cake are slated for production if their rise is right. If we can convert the pre-made chocolate and vanilla batters we get from our current distributor that go into other cakes we will begin to use Fructevia as well as Stevia Blend in cake recipes that are made from scratch. We are even trying the blends in our recipes at home with the family.
Q: How will it affect your business?
A: Our Customers ask if we are using Splenda. They also ask if we are using Stevia Blend, and to be able to say yes and offer it as retail…. it really gives us an edge. Cost is obviously a major concern for any business, but our customers are as curious as we are about health-positive alternatives that are made and distributed with low or zero impact on the environment.
Q: How will it affect your customers?
A: Our customer base is broad, we meet people who are recommended to us by their doctors and people who come here from the gym down the street. People in good health that want to stay there and people with challenges that need to make certain changes. We know cancer patients on dialysis and people with other pre-existing conditions that must lower, or stop, their sugar intake. Everyone is seeing a benefit. And our menu is very detailed, with stats on fat content, calories and even Weight Watchers points. I would say fifty percent of our customers are on the Weight Watchers diet.
Q: Would you recommend it to other health conscious bakers and culinary artists?
A: Absolutely! They need to start working with another medium. Doctors are actually referring patients to our bakery. Over 26.8 million Americans are diagnosed diabetic, and those who are just considering putting a stop to how much sugar they are taking in on a daily basis can indulge in Just Delicious' baked goods with a healthy conscience.
Nanette Goin and Donna Nelson, Co-Owners of Just Delicious Diabetic Delights at 16140 SE 82nd Drive, Clackamas, OR. Tel: 503-657-4547
Relevant Links:
Http://www. steviva. com (http://www. steviva. com)
Http://www. fructevia. com (http://www. fructevia. com)
Http://www. justdeliciousbakery. com (http://www. justdeliciousbakery. com)
About Steviva Brands -- Steviva Brands has been producing stevia based sweeteners for over ten years and is one of the largest manufactures and importers in the United States. Please contact Thom King (thom. king (at) steviva. com) at Steviva Brands, Inc. at 310-455-9876 for interviews, product shots and samples. High resolution product shot can be downloaded at: http://www. steviva. com/press/Fructevia. tif (http://www. steviva. com/press/Fructevia. tif), http://www. steviva. com/press/StevivaBlend. tif (http://www. steviva. com/press/StevivaBlend. tif), http://www. steviva. com/press/steviva_powder. tif (http://www. steviva. com/press/steviva_powder. tif)
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