Uses of stevia
Stevia finds more and more modes of use in our daily life. It has been successfully used as:
- sugar substitute - stevioside in the form of dry or liquid extract can be added to the meals;
- food supplement - dried leaves can be mixed with other medicinal herbs, teas and drinks;
- ingredient for creams and masks - rehabilitation and purifying properties of the plant can be used for making various natural masks and compresses for face;
- herbal potion - fast dissolution of the curative components of the plant allows to make simple herbal potions for treatment and prevention at home.
The following table reflects the wide range of stevia uses in industry and at home.
| SIMPLE USE |
| Dried leaves |
Dried stalks |
Ground mixture (leaves and stalks) |
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| Ground for tea bags |
Ground |
Liquid extract or paste |
Dry extract |
- Tea
- Herb infusion
-Mixture with mate tea |
-Mixture with mate tea
-Improver for wine maturity
- Food supplement for animals |
- Fruit drinks
- Non-alcohol
Drinks
-Alcohol drinks
-Bakery and
Confectionary
- Ice-cream
-Conservation
- Sweetener
-Stimulator in agriculture
-Disinfection of soils |
-Powder |
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| INDUSTRIAL USE |
| Ground mixture (leaves and stalks) |
| Stevioside |
Rebaudiside |
Dulcoside |
Chlorophyll |
| The plant contains 7-13% of a white substance that is 300 sweeter than sugar |
Another component of the plant has forms A-B-C-D and E. Its content in the plant is 1-3% and it is 350-400 times sweeter than sugar. |
The content of this substance in the plant is 1%, it has forms A and B and is 50 times sweeter than sugar. |
Natural analogue of the substance, widely used in industry |
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Stevia is highly useful in case of:
- diabetes;
- obesity;
- atherosclerosis;
- hypertension;
- allergy;
- low defenses;
- blood diseases of different origins;
- mouth diseases (caries, parodontosis and others);
- renal diseases;
- diseases of stomach and intestines.
Nutritive properties:
The pure extract of stevia – stevioside – can be added to:
- soups and second-course dishes;
- salads, paste or dough, cottage cheese, sauces, etc.;
- fruit and vegetable conservation instead of sugar;
- confectionary, bakery products and ice-cream.
Fresh leaves of stevia can be used as ingredient of the vegetable and fruit salads.
Dried leaves of stevia can be used as tea infusion or as tea mixture with other herbs, or as additive to classic tea, coffee, soy milk, cacao, stewed fruit and other drinks.
The use of extracts and dried leaves of stevia as food supplement improves considerably the digestive process and activates the functioning of all the systems of the human organism. Stevia in your menu:
- Normalizes the function of the enzyme systems of your organism;
- Restores the carbohydrate, protein, lipid and hydro mineral metabolism;
- Reduces the level of cholesterol and sugar in blood;
- Restores the blood micro circulation;
- Provides the antiseptic, antiallergenic, anesthetic anti-sclerotic and healing effects;
- Strengthens the regeneration processes;
- Improves the myocardial function;
- Improves the neural and muscular conductivity;
- Provides absorption action;
- Neutralizes and expulses toxins (including radionuclide);
- Nourishes the endocrine system;
- Stabilizes the arterial tension;
- Provides anti-tumor and energy-saving actions;
- Stimulates the digestive and urinary functions of the organism.
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