Stevia is a kind of natural healthy sweetener and medical auxiliary agent extracted from stevia leaves, a plant of asteraceae herb. It is pure white, with good taste, no peculiar smell, stable in property, not easy to become mouldy, and also easily soluble in water and alcohol. t is a kind of sweetener ever discovered with the most similar taste to sucrose, and approved for use worldwide. Stevia is high in sweetness, low in calorie, its sweetness is about 200-450 times to sucrose, but calories is only 1/300 times. It is widely used in food, beverage, medicine, cosmetic industry, wine, etc. at the cost of 30% of sucrose. Therefore stevia is an ideal alternative of sucrose, honored as "the Third Source of Sweetener" internationally.
In addition, through a large number of drug experiments proved that the stevia glycoside non-toxic side effects, not only no carcinogens, safety performance is high, and contains 14 kinds of amino acids and more than 10 kinds of trace elements (iron, zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, sulfur and fluorine,chromium.bromine. selenium.etc,, regular consumption can prevent hypertension. diabetes obesity, heart disease tooth decay and other diseases. is an ideal medical auxiliary agents.