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  • noun organic chemistry A diterpene derived from stevia.

Etymologies

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stevia +‎ -ol

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Examples

  • Sidd Purkayastha, the company's vice president for global technical development, says stevia leaves actually contain a whole family of different sweet molecules, called steviol glycosides.

    News 2012

  • Sidd Purkayastha, the company's vice president for global technical development, says stevia leaves actually contain a whole family of different sweet molecules, called steviol glycosides.

    News 2012

  • But a tiny, naturally-occurring steviol glycoside constituent (about two to four percent of a whole leaf) of the plant, called rebaudioside A (also known as reb A, rebiana, stevia extract), was passed into Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) status by the FDA in 2008.

    Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness? 2010

  • But a tiny, naturally-occurring steviol glycoside constituent (about two to four percent of a whole leaf) of the plant, called rebaudioside A (also known as reb A, rebiana, stevia extract), was passed into Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) status by the FDA in 2008.

    Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness? 2010

  • "We found that, as we bring together different steviol glycoside molecules, they start performing better, in many cases, and more like sugar," he says.

    News 2012

  • "We found that, as we bring together different steviol glycoside molecules, they start performing better, in many cases, and more like sugar," he says.

    News 2012

  • Seventeen test fields have been established in five provinces in the northern half of the country with a total propagation of 20 Ha (hectares) of which eight Ha is growing high value Reb-A (Rebaudioside A, the most valued steviol glycoside) of the Morita 2 and Morita 3 varieties and 12 Ha with a local variety under conversion to Reb-A.

    unknown title 2011

  • These discussions will center on the economics of purifying RP44 (rebaudioside C) from raw Stevia leaf, steviol glycosides, or during the rebaudioside A ("Reb-A") purification process.

    Big Step Forward For Redpoint Bio - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The Company's Chairman and CEO, Dr. Luke Zhang, commented, Our leading capabilities in the separation of steviol glycosides, production quality, and scale, coupled with IFF's global strengths in innovative and advanced flavour systems for high purity Reb C, make this an exciting global opportunity for GLG.

    unknown title 2011

  • These high purity extracts both contain greater than 95% steviol glycosides.

    unknown title 2011

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