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Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity
Stevia is a plant native to South America that has been used as a sweetener for hundreds of years. Today, zero-calorie stevia, as high-purity stevia leaf extract, is being used globally to reduce energy and added sugar content in foods and beverages. This article introduces stevia, explaining its su...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000094 |
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description | Stevia is a plant native to South America that has been used as a sweetener for hundreds of years. Today, zero-calorie stevia, as high-purity stevia leaf extract, is being used globally to reduce energy and added sugar content in foods and beverages. This article introduces stevia, explaining its sustainable production, metabolism in the body, safety assessment, and use in foods and drinks to assist with energy reduction. The article also summarizes current thinking of the evidence for the role of nonnutritive sweeteners in energy reduction. Overall, stevia shows promise as a new tool to help achieve weight management goals. |
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spelling | pubmed-48908372016-07-26 Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity Ashwell, Margaret Nutr Today Food and Nutrition Stevia is a plant native to South America that has been used as a sweetener for hundreds of years. Today, zero-calorie stevia, as high-purity stevia leaf extract, is being used globally to reduce energy and added sugar content in foods and beverages. This article introduces stevia, explaining its sustainable production, metabolism in the body, safety assessment, and use in foods and drinks to assist with energy reduction. The article also summarizes current thinking of the evidence for the role of nonnutritive sweeteners in energy reduction. Overall, stevia shows promise as a new tool to help achieve weight management goals. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015-05 2015-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4890837/ /pubmed/27471327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000094 Text en Copyright © 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. |
spellingShingle | Food and Nutrition Ashwell, Margaret Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title | Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title_full | Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title_fullStr | Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title_full_unstemmed | Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title_short | Stevia, Nature’s Zero-Calorie Sustainable Sweetener: A New Player in the Fight Against Obesity |
title_sort | stevia, nature’s zero-calorie sustainable sweetener: a new player in the fight against obesity |
topic | Food and Nutrition |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000094 |
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