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Stevia can be used as a flavor enhancer for stevioside and stevioside A for ice creams and soft drinks; stevioside for enhancing sucrose, aspartame and cyclamate; steviol glycosides and their salts The class can be used for ripening fruits and vegetables; stevioside is added to foods, beverages or pharmaceuticals as an aromatic flavor enhancer; for salt-free storage of foods. Stevioside is used together with lactose, maltose syrup, fructose, sorbitol, maltitol and lactulose to make hard candy. Stevioside can be used to produce chewing gum and bubble gum, as well as to produce candies of various flavors, such as jelly with papaya, pineapple, guava, apple, orange, grape or strawberry flavor. Stevioside can also be mixed with sorbitol, glycine, alanine, etc. to produce cake powder. Since stevioside is thermally stable, it is particularly suitable for use in this regard.

A variety of soft drinks, such as low-energy cola drinks, can also be sweetened with stevioside and high fructose syrup. Stevioside can also be used in solid beverages, health drinks, liqueurs and coffee.