A new sweetener – stevia extract Rebaudioside A

Published on: 2022-12-06 16:58

Rebaudioside A belongs to the category of steviol glycosides. Its sweetness is 450 times that of sucrose, and its sweetness is similar to that of sucrose, which can be widely used in food and beverage as an ideal natural sweetener.

Product Chinese name: Rebaudioside A

Chinese aliases: Rebaudioside A

Appearance: white crystalline powder

Uses: for content determination/identification/pharmacological experiments, etc.

Extraction source: Asteraceae plant stevia leaves.

Stevia extract rebaudioside A glycoside also has many physiological activities, such as lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, preventing and alleviating diabetes, obesity, dental caries and gastric ulcers.

 

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Application areas and prospects of stevia extract rebaudioside A:

Compared with sucrose, the taste of stevia extract rebaudioside A has shortcomings such as slightly bitter taste and burnt feeling, which greatly limits its application, and has a special sweet taste and aromatic smell, which is an excellent substitute for sucrose.

Therefore, stevia extract stevia rebaudioside A glycoside is known as the "third source of sugar" after sucrose and beet sugar. Several countries have officially passed the approval of steviol glycosides as a sweetener instead of sucrose. It has been widely used as a sweetener in food, medicine, cosmetics, beverages and winemaking industries, and stevia extract rebaudioside A is a new type of natural sweetener, different from traditional synthetic sweeteners in terms of product characteristics, stevia extract rebaudioside A sweetener is safer and greener.

China is the world's largest producer of steviol glycoside primary products, and in addition to the large demand in the domestic market, the demand for sugar in the international market is also very large, especially in high-sugar consuming countries such as Europe and the United States.

However, these products are mainly based on the primary product - steviaside, and then foreign manufacturers are refined and then sold to various countries and sold back to China, which greatly increases the added value of the product.

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