Article
A bioeconomy perspective for natural sweetener Stevia.
2018-01-01
Abstract excerpt
The "sweet herb" (El Caa-ehe) used by the Guaraní tribes living in the forests of today's eastern Paraguay and southern Brazil, is rapidly emerging as natural sweetener alternative both to sugar and synthetic sweeteners, well beyond Japan where it is widely used since the mid 1970s. Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni contains in its leaves highly sweet steviol glycosides which do not release calories in the huma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 651eb5e2-c2ec-5a4b-8f91-1a521d679ef6
- DOI
- 10.31220/osf.io/7bcvr
