FEMA | 4763 |
CAS | 57817-89-7 |
EINECS | 260-975-5 |
JECFA Food Flavoring | N/A |
CoE Number | N/A |
Organoleptic Notes |
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Odor | N/A |
Flavor | sweet sweet, |
Material Notes | kaurene glucoside from leaves of stevia rebaudiana; 300 times as sweet as sugar. Constit. of Stevia rebaudiana (stevia). Sweetening agent which is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. Stevia rebaudiana is extensively cultivated in Japan, and Stevioside is a permitted sweetener in that country Rebaudioside B, D, and E may also be present in minute quantities; however, it is suspected that rebaudioside B is a byproduct of the isolation technique. The two majority compounds stevioside and rebaudioside, primarily responsible for the sweet taste of stevia leaves, were first isolated by two French chemists in 1931. |