Sweetener plant
Sweetener plants are plants from which non- sugar natural sweeteners are obtained.
Sweetener plants
Natural herbal sweeteners often have a sweetening power that is many times stronger than that of sucrose from sugar plants , as the following table shows. The sweetening ingredients of these plants are glycosides (stevioside, mogroside, glycyrrhizin), proteins (brazzein, thaumatin), glycoproteins (miraculin, monellin) or sesquiterpenes (hernandulcin).
plant | Sweetening ingredient | Sweetness compared to sucrose (= 1) |
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Stevia rebaudiana | Stevioside | 70-450 |
Aztec sweet herb | Hernandulcin | 1,250 |
Pentadiplandra brazzeana (Oubli) | Brazzein | 500-2,000 |
Luo Han Guo | Mogroside | 200-300 |
Katamfe | Thaumatin | 2,000-3,000 |
Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii | Monellin | 1,000 |
licorice | Glycyrrhizin | 50 |
use
The sweetener plants, especially stevia, are gaining in importance because they are seen as a healthier alternative to sucrose (see the article on Stevia rebaudiana ).
Web links
- A database of plants that provide sweeteners: Sweetener. on: pfaf.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Franke (Ed.): Useful plants of the tropics and subtropics. Volume 3: Special crop production. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart-Hohenheim 1994, ISBN 3-8001-2667-2 , p. 409 ff.