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In Vitro Culture: Means for Production of Biological Active Compounds from Industrial Crops
Industrial plants are the marvelous source for the new bioactive products with medicinal properties in plant-based drug development. Secondary...
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Hyssop, Lovage, Sage, Savory, Sweet Honey Leaf (Stevia)
This chapter deals with five sub-tropical-temperate herbal spices that are used popularly in the continental cuisine all over the world. Hyssop,...
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Agronomic Biofortification of Stevia rebaudiana with Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Phytonanoparticles and Antioxidant Compounds
Agronomic biofortification is a process used to increase the concentration of essential elements in plants through fertilization and thus improve...
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Consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners by pre-schoolers of the food and environment Chilean cohort (FECHIC) before the implementation of the Chilean food labelling and advertising law
BackgroundConsumption of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) is becoming increasingly more frequent, particularly in the context of obesity prevention...
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Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Bioactive and Nutraceuticals
The increasing consumer awareness about the link between nutrition and health has led the food industry to produce fortified food with...
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Rhizobium rhizogenes-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Antidiabetic Plants
Rhizobium rhizogenes induces a disease syndrome in infected plants commonly known as hairy roots (HR) production. These unique organs are considered...
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Physiological Ecology of Medicinal Plants: Implications for Phytochemical Constituents
Herbal plants have been valued for their medicinal, flavoring, and aromatic properties for centuries. The global market for medicinal and aromatic...
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Pro-pre and Postbiotic Fermentation of the Dietetic Dairy Matrix with Prebiotic Sugar Replacers
In this study, bacterial growth, postbiotic short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) formation, and gelation properties of sugar-free probiotic milk gels...
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Regulation of Natural Food Additives
The use of natural ingredients in food formulation has been facing an increasing demand worldwide. Aiming to preserve the consumer’s health and...
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A growth selection system for sucrose synthases (SuSy): design and test
High throughput screening (HTS) methods of enzyme variants are essential for the development of robust biocatalysts suited for low impact, industrial...
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Chemical profile and beneficial effect of standardized extract of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni leaves on metabolic syndrome in high fat diet streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Stevia ( Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) is a natural zero calorie sweetener with significant economic and medicinal values due to its high contents of...
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Toxicological Aspects of Natural Food Additives
In recent decades, natural food additives (NFAs) have gained more interest from consumers and food manufacturers since the public is more interested...
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Sweetness interaction between a novel glycosylated rebaudioside A and various sweeteners in a binary mixture system
The present study investigated the sweetness interaction and the sensory characteristics of a novel glycosylated rebaudioside A (g-reb_A) when mixed...
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Steviosides (Diterpenoids)
Diterpenoids are 20 carbon terpenes (four C5 units) belong to secondary metabolites, associated with defense activities in plants. Some of the...
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In Vitro Approaches for Mass Propagation of Stevia rebaudiana
Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni), commonly known as a natural sweetener plant or sweet herb grabs the economic and scientific interests owing to its...
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Enzymatic production of steviol using a commercial β-glucosidase and preparation of its inclusion complex with γ-CD
Diterpenoid steviol and its derivatives have gained a growing interest for their broad therapeutic benefits in recent years. In nature, steviol...
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Steviol Glycosides: Natural Noncaloric Sweeteners
Steviol glycosides are a group of highly sweet diterpene glycosides isolated in only a few plant species of the Paraguayan shrub Stevia rebaudiana....
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Enhancing the thermostability and activity of glycosyltransferase UGT76G1 via computational design
The diterpene glycosyltransferase UGT76G1, derived from Stevia rebaudiana , plays a pivotal role in the biosynthesis of rebaudioside A, a natural...
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Whey protein sweetened with Stevia rebaudiana increases insulin-degrading enzyme, but not carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 expression in the liver from resistance-trained rats
PurposeIn this study, we investigated the effects of the supplementation with whey protein sweetened with Stevia upon insulin clearance markers in...
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Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) as a common sugar substitute and its application in food matrices: an updated review
Stevia ( Stevia rebaudiana ) has been employee for develo** food products as a substitute for sucrose, low caloric, and natural sweetener. Different...
