English Name: Stevioside
CAS No.: 57817-89-7
Molecular formula: C38H60O18
Molecular weight: 804.88
EINECS No.: 260-975-5
Melting point: 198 ° C
Boiling point: 963.3 ± 65.0 ° C (predicted)
Density: 1.53 ± 0.1 g / cm3 (predicted)
Stevioside is a natural health-care sweetener and medical adjuvant extracted from Stevia rebaudiana.
Stevia is pure white in color, suitable in taste, no peculiar smell, easy to dissolve in water and alcohol, stable in nature and not easy to mildew. It is the closest natural sweetener to sucrose taste that has been found and approved by the Ministry of health and the Ministry of industry. It has unique characteristics of high sweetness and low heat. Its sweetness is 200-450 times that of sucrose, but its heat is only 1 / 300 of sucrose It can be widely used in food, beverage, medicine, daily chemical industry, wine making and other industries, and the cost is only 35% of sucrose. Therefore, stevia is an ideal substitute for sucrose and is internationally known as "the third sugar source in the world".