Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Stevia, Naturally Sweet Miracle Plant

Stevia is a wonderful, gifted plant which contains edible, healthy, non-calorific sweetener namely Stevioside and Rebaudioside. Our Stevia products have been extracted with a unique proven technology that derives a variety of consumables from this wonderful plant.

Stevia plant benefits do not stop there; its extract are proven to be 200-300 times more sweet than normal table sugar. That's a powerful and cost-effective alternative to sugar!

SteviaSugar™ Corporation(M) Sdn Bhd welcomes you to the pure taste of natural living! It is a Malaysian based company who grows, cultivates, harvests, refine and extracts stevia products from the miraculous sweet plant Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni. As stevia experts, we proudly bring you readily-consumed stevia in various forms. Stevia is the world's most ideal replacement for table sugar and other artificial sweeteners. Stevia sugar contains ZERO calories! Welcome to a sweeter and healthier living with stevia!

甜菊屬(學名:Stevia)是 菊科 轄下,擁有約240個 草本植物和灌木物種的屬,原產於北美洲西部和南美洲的亞熱帶和熱帶地區。甜菊屬中的甜菊種(Stevia rebaudiana)俗稱甜葉菊,因為其葉子味甜而廣為栽種。甜菊是常見的甜精和代糖,它的甜味擴散較慢、持續時間比食糖長,但部分高濃度萃取物帶有苦澀或類似甘草口感的餘韻。
甜菊可提煉出甜度是食糖的300倍的甜菊糖,熱量低、對血糖影響甚微,因此在低醣飲食風潮興起下逐漸受到青睞,普遍被用為天然甜味劑。事實上,甜菊在少數國家已經有數十年、甚至數世紀的悠久歷史,例如日本很早就懂得以甜菊添增甜味。然而,也有其他國家由於健康考量或政治因素,禁止或限制甜菊的使用。例如,美國曾在1990年代早期禁止使用甜菊,僅開放膳食補充劑用途,但在2008年認可以甜菊糖苷萃取物作為合法食品添加劑。近年,允許使用甜菊甜精的國家數已有漸增趨勢。

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