Sweeteners
A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food; artificial sweeteners and natural sweeteners that aren’t purely sugar are sugar substitutes.
It used to be the most common use of sucrose as a sweetener, but in recent years, the incidence of cardiovascular disease increases, so people are looking for root causes also found that a lot of sugar into the body, along with the production of high-energy, which in the body accumulation, leading to the accumulation of fat, thus people are looking for a high sweetness and low calorie sweetener, although the synthesis of saccharin sodium bring hope to people, but it was safe, natural sweetener is expected of. At present the development and application of the natural sweetener is mainly extracted from the Stevia Stevioside, 300 times as sweet as sugar.
China’s current resource-rich, and can extract all the water law, including glycosides reached 80%. Another sweetener is corn starch, amylase enzyme production with corn syrup. There are also extracted from licorice root licorice factors, sweet as sugar in the 50 100 times, 250 times more pure; grass extracted from perilla perilla oil, basil and then processed into sugar, the sweetness of 2000 times for the sugar and low calorific value, high safety, have antiseptic properties, but these two natural sweeteners, or incomplete due to technical or resources are limited and difficult to promote development. Currently more than 500 tons of stevioside annual export volume accounts for more than 70% of production.