Natural Food Sweetener Material Stevia Powder Ra Stevioside

Stevioside is natural constituents of the plant Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni . Stevioside is 250 times sweeter than sucrose, and have the potential to serve as non-caloric sweeteners. Stevioside is already in use as a food sweetener in a number of South American and Asian countries. 

1.Pure natural:Plant extract
2.Low calorie:1/300 of the sugar and no heat
3.High sweetness:250~400 times than cane sugar
4.Cost performance:The cost is 1/3 of sugar
5.Good stability:Can stand the heat, acid, alkali, not easy to decompose
6.Excellent solubility:Easily soluble in water, ethanol and other organic solvents
7.High security:International authoritative testing, pharmacological experiments, non-toxic side effects
8.Long shelf life:Bacteriostatic, stable performance, easy to store

Function

Stevioside is a new typed natural sweetener extracted from the composite herbage ---stevia. Stevioside is a kind of good sweetener instead of cane sugar that can treat diabetes, hypertension partly and can also treat adiposity, cardiovascular disease, gastritis and acid stomach as an auxiliary method. The stevioside is a stable and non fermented substance with fresh status for a long term and no metabolism, cumulation and poison in the body, so its safety was passed inspection of international organization FAO and WHO. The stevioside is used widely in Japan, Korea and European and American developed nations and regions and is renowned as the third sugar resource in the world. A3 glucoside is the main ingredient of stevioside ,its appearance is white, petty yellow incompact powder or crystal with the feature of high sweet, low hot energy .Its sweet degree is 200-300 times as much as cane sugar and the calorie is 1/300 of cane sugar. The stevioside can reduce bitterness and unsafe factors made by the saccharin and other chemosynthesis sweeteners.

Application

The steviol glycosides will be used primarily as a non-calorie sweetener and/or flavour enhancer.
They can be used in the same wide range of products that can contain sugar.
They are expected to be used primarily in:
- soft drinks and cordials,
- milk, soy and mineral drinks,
- canned fruit, jams and juices,
- ice creams, yoghurts and other dairy products,
- cakes, biscuits, pastries and desserts,
- sugar free beers and alcoholic beverages,
- toppings, sauces, chutneys, spreads etc,
- cereals, muesli bars and confectionaries.