Consumer demand for natural, plant-based ingredients combined with their desire to cut back on sugar without sacrificing taste is creating a perfect storm for stevia sales to grow exponentially, ...

If there were a quiz on stevia, I am not sure I could pass. For more than 10 years, I have been growing the plant because I learned that it is a natural sweetener with no calories and a glycemic index ...

The quest to produce a sweetener with the most sugar-like taste continues with PureCircle identifying two different ways of producing significant amounts of Reb D and Reb M, two in-demand steviol ...

Using traditional plant breeding techniques, PureCircle has developed a stevia plant with 20 times more sweet-tasting steviol glycosides than standard stevia, it says. Following on from a successful ...

Ingredion. has filed a patent for novel Stevia rebaudiana plant cultivars and a process to extract steviol glycosides for use in food and beverage products. The process involves extracting steviol ...

For the first time, scientists have completed the sequencing of the stevia plant genome. Lead scientists from PureCircle Stevia Institute and KeyGene have unveiled this major breakthrough in research ...

While the United States has only been continuously using artificial sweeteners since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Nutrasweet in 1981, other cultures have been using sugar ...

In the United States many have been routinely consuming artificial sweeteners since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Nutrasweet in 1981 − and some other cultures have been using sugar ...

Stevia is a natural, no-calorie sweetener made from the stevia plant and is much sweeter than sugar. While stevia does not raise blood sugar, some stevia products, especially those containing ...