Stevia Nutra Corporation, having just reported a successful first harvest, is developing plans to expand its production capacity of high quality stevia in Cambodia.
March 21, 2013
The move comes as numerous beverage companies look to new sweetening options.
Whether it’s because they’re battling a health condition, such as diabetes, or simply watching their weight, consumers are looking to avoid sugar. Meanwhile, certain sweetener alternatives have fallen out of public favor (justifiably so, or not).
Pepsi is launching a reduced-calorie soda in Australia that uses stevia, the first time the beverage maker is using the natural sweetener in its namesake cola.
Stevia has been long cultivated as a sweetener. The extracts of the leaves, steviol glycosides, are responsible for its sweet characteristics; the main two steviol glycosides are stevioside and rebaudioside A (reb A).
Vitiva, Slovenia, launches its stevia line under Sweet’nVit brand, providing maximum sweetness with minimum bitterness, following EC recent approval for use in food/beverage applications in Europe.