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Bio-Sweetener (Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni) Boon for Rural India

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  • Shashi Kant Shukla
  • Rajesh Kumar
  • Anupam Dikshit

    (Centre of Rural Technology and Development, University of Allahabad, India)

Abstract

Sugar and its products are the most important additional part of our diet (taste) especially in rural areas. The increase, sugar amount in body causes several diseases such as diabetes. To, the taste addicted person, it is very difficult to replace tasty products particularly sweets but some medicinal plant parts are used as alternate of sugar; Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) is one of them. It is an herbaceous perennial plant which belongs to family Asteraceae, contains stevioside, natural sweetener. This plant is cultivated in some parts of India and is a rich source of crude protein i.e 16% in leaves and 6% in stem with low fat content. This plant can be a very good source of health and income.

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  • Shashi Kant Shukla & Rajesh Kumar & Anupam Dikshit, 2017. "Bio-Sweetener (Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni) Boon for Rural India," Organic & Medicinal Chemistry International Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 3(3), pages 80-81, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jomcij:v:3:y:2017:i:3:p:80-81
    DOI: 10.19080/OMCIJ.2017.03.555615
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