Natural, safe, healthy and multi-functional, the stevioside is a new-type sugar, 200-300 times as sweet as the cane sugar while one three-hundredth of the quantity of heat, which is extracted and refined from the stevia leaves and looks like powder or crystals. The product has the following characteristics:
(1) Sweet and pure, almost as sweet as the cane sugar;
(2) Strong heat-resistance, with the melting point of 235 ?? no change of color when heated and keeping the products good-looking;
(3) Keeping highly-stable, under low density of acid and alkali no decomposing or making of the monose, non-ferment sugar, good for keeping the products fresh and prolonging the good quality;
(4) Well-dissolved in water and in such organic solvent as alcohol;
(5) Low cost, one third of the cost of the cane sugar.
Used in all the fields where sugar should be used, the product has the beyond-comparison advantages and brings a big attack to the world sugar market. The authoritative persons of the world foodstuff think highly of it as the most functional sugar with great developing potentials in the 21st century!
   Today the product is widely used in the industries of foodstuff, beverage, condiment, pickling and salting products, tobacco, medicine, making of wine and daily chemicals. At the same time it is the most satisfactory substitute for sugars for the patients of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, high blood pressure, dental caries and those who advocate nature and seek health and beautiful appearance.