Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) a bio-sweetener: a review
@article{Goyal2010SteviaR, title={Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) a bio-sweetener: a review}, author={Surbhi Goyal and Samsher and R K Goyal}, journal={International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition}, year={2010}, volume={61}, pages={1 - 10} }
Studies revealed that Stevia has been used throughout the world since ancient times for various purposes; for example, as a sweetener and a medicine. [] Key Method We searched relevant papers up to 2007 in various databases. As we know that the leaves of Stevia plants have functional and sensory properties superior to those of many other high-potency sweeteners, Stevia is likely to become a major source of high-potency sweetener for the growing natural food market in the future. Although Stevia can be…
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Stevioside is a natural sweetener extracted from leaves of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni. The literature about Stevia, the occurrence of its sweeteners, their biosynthetic pathway and…
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The objective of this study was to determine the variation on the relative sweetness of aspartame (APM), stevia [Stevia rebaudiana (Bert.) Bertoni] leaf extract (SrB) and the mixture cyclamate/saccharin with the increase in their concentrations, and in neutral and acid pH in equi-sweet concentration to 10% sucrose, using magnitude estimation.
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The phytochemical results obtained in this study are correlated with those of preliminary organoleptic tests on the sweetness of these Stevia samples, and the chemotaxonomic implications of the present findings are discussed.
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Fragments of a 62-year-old leaf of S. rebaudiana exhibited a potent and prolonged sensation of sweetness, thereby indicating the stability of its sweet ent-kaurene glycoside constituents to drying, preservation, mounting and storage.
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Field work in Paraguay, Peru, Colombia and Mexico, including field organoleptic tests and interviews, showed that leaves of no other Stevia species studied possessed a potent sweet taste comparable to that of S. rebaudiana leaves.
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The leaf content of the sweetener stevioside was investigated with regard to the morphological characteristics of plants of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni grown in one of the most productive…