What is stevia sugar made of? Can diabetics eat more? Is this saccharin?
Stevioside is a natural sweetener extracted from stevia rebaudiana, a herb in Compositae. It has the characteristics of high sweetness and low heat energy, the sweetness is 200-300 times that of sucrose, and the calorific value is only 1/300 of sucrose. A large number of drug experiments have proved that stevioside is safe to eat and can be used as a sweetener instead of sucrose. The clinical experiments of foreign food experts and medical experts have confirmed that this product has a certain curative effect on diabetes and hypertension, and also has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on obesity, cardiovascular diseases, gastritis, oral diseases and hyperacidity.