APPLICATION OF STEVIA

As a new natural sweetener, stevia is widely used in many applications, such as food, beverage, pharmaceutical, household cosmetics. Broadly speaking, stevia can replace part of sucrose or all of saccharin in products with traditional sweeteners. At present, stevia is mainly applied in beverage and pharmaceutical industry, especially in beverage, and also applied to some extents in other areas, such as cigarettes, cold food, canned, candied fruit, spices glycosides, liquor, chewing gum, toothpaste, mouthwash water. Since the amount of stevia in various kinds of products are generally different from each other, it is necessary to repeat the study to find the optimum proportion, to ensure products quality, taste and flavor.