Properties: White to micro-yellow crystalline powder or granules with cool flavor. It?s about 250-350 times sweeter than the cane sugar. It has slightly bitter taste in the high concentrations. Sweetness can stay longer in the mouth and not easy to disappear. Its melting Point is 196-198 degrees Celsius, resistance to high temperature, and more stable in acidic and alkaline solution (PH3-9). The stevioside can soluble in ethanol. It belongs to non-fermented products. So it can be used in the food which is difficult to sterilize by heated and do not have Maillard brown reaction. Keeping the white color. It?s much closer to cane sugar compared with the other nature sweeteners￡?while the drawback is the large molecular weight and poor permeability. Stevioside has the maximum absorption in the ultraviolet wavelength of spectrophotometer 210nM, thus can be used as quantitative basis.
Classification: Stevioside 90-98%
Characteristics:
1. Natural
Stevia is a natural Green Sweetener which is extracted from Stevia Leaves and was proved to be "Green Food" by the Center of China Green Food Development.
2. Safety
Stevia has been used as Food additives for more than 400 years in Paraguay. It does not join the metabolism, no toxicity which was approved and widely used in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Russia, USA, Paraguay, Brazil, Australia and so on.
3. Sweetness
It contains mo re 200-300 times sweetness than cane sugar. Stevioside and Reaudioside-A are main ingredients in Stevia, which taste cool, refreshing and soft.
4. Low calorie
1/300 of cane sugar.
5. Healthy
Stevioside is called good nutrition supplement and health food for human being in international medical profession. And native people used it as a herbal treatment of the common cold, influenza, congestive diseases such as fistula 400 years ago. Modern medical research that Stevia can not only help people regulate blood sugar, blood pressure, increase energy and brainpower, but also contributes to the human diet and weight conditioning. Meanwhile it has a good role in the skin care and the treatment of various skin diseases.
6. Stable
Stevia is stable in Acid, Alkali, hot, light and non-fermentative.
Application￡o
As the no calorie sweetener, it has the functions to lower blood pressure, promote metabolism, and treat hyperacidity. It usually used as sweetener for licorice and cane sugar and often used to improve the sweetness with sodium citrate, while it mainly used for the bitter drink, carbonated drinks, pickled products, and so on..