Sweet tea leaf extract tastes the same as sucrose. But it is low in calories and does not affect the body's blood sugar level, and is considered a natural, safe, and healthy sweet product or sugar substitute. It can directly replace sucrose.
What is Sweet Tea extract?
Sweet tea natural sweetener refers to the sweetener monomer component obtained by extraction, separation and purification from pure natural plant leaves. After compounding or directly as a sweetener product, it is applied to sweet products or substances of food, health care products and medicines.
Rubusoside is sweet tea's main sweet substance, mainly diterpenoids and glycosides such as rubin, Rubaside-A, and sugarlocoside.
Due to the high content of sweet tea glycosides in their raw materials, they are very easy to crystallize. Therefore, the content of sweet tea glycosides on the market is much higher than that of mogrosides. 99 percent sweet tea glycosides have been produced on a large scale. And its taste has also been greatly improved.
How To Improve the Taste of Sweet Tea Sweetener?
Compared with Luo Han Guo, the taste of sweet tea glycosides is inferior. It is bitter and astringent with a heavy metal taste. It cannot be directly added for use, and the taste must be improved and corrected to make it closer to the taste of sucrose. Studies have shown that significant results can be achieved through purification methods. The use of activated carbon or special macroporous adsorption resin can effectively improve the taste and the effect is obvious.
In addition, it is also an ordinary solution in the industry to improve the taste of natural sweeteners by compounding with sugar alcohols, masking agents or other plant extracts. However, in any way, it still has a particular gap compared with sucrose, which seriously limits the terminal application and promotion of the natural sweetener industry.
Summary
With the continuous improvement of people's health awareness, the market growth rate of high-sugar, high-calorie products is showing a downward trend, and healthy natural sweeteners are replacing traditional sweet products. Sweet tea leaf extract sweeteners will not only have broad demand prospects in the food and beverage processing industries. The development prospects are promising in terms of demand in the pharmaceutical industry. And natural sweetener is one of the necessary additives for children's medicines.