{"id":218305,"date":"2025-07-19T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/stevia-leaf-extract-has-potential-as-anticancer-treatment-researchers-find"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:17:04","slug":"stevia-leaf-extract-has-potential-as-anticancer-treatment-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/stevia-leaf-extract-has-potential-as-anticancer-treatment-researchers-find","title":{"rendered":"Stevia leaf extract has potential as anticancer treatment, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stevia-leaf-extract-has-potential-as-anticancer-treatment-researchers-find.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t harm healthy kidney cells, according to a research team at Hiroshima University.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers published their findings on April 28 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijms26094186\" target=\"_blank\"><i>International Journal of Molecular Sciences<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobally, the incidence and mortality rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pancreatic+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pancreatic cancer<\/a> continue to rise, with a five-year survival rate of less than 10%,\u201d said co-author Narandalai Danshiitsoodol, associate professor in Department of Probiotic Science for Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t harm healthy kidney cells, according to a research team at Hiroshima University. The researchers published their findings on April 28 in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}