{"title":"Structure, Properties, and Biomedical Activity of Natural Sweeteners Steviosides: An Update","authors":"Aoyi Wang, Huiqin Hu, Yadan Yuan, Shiran Mei, Guoxue Zhu, Qiaoyan Yue, Yanliang Zhang, Shujun Jiang","doi":"10.1002/fsn3.70002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stevioside is a natural sweetener with the characteristics of low calorie and high sweetness. It comprises a diverse range of monomers that play crucial roles in numerous biological processes. Due to these attributes, it has gained widespread application in agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical industries. As a substitute for sugar, stevioside also shows good pharmacological activities on glucose metabolism, bodyweight keeping, blood pressure maintenance, and shows anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, anti-tumor, antibacterial, and immune regulation activities. This review summarized the update on the food safety, sweet structure–activity relationship, pharmacological activity of stevia glycosides recently, and discussed the limitations of its application in food and medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":12418,"journal":{"name":"Food Science & Nutrition","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11787980/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Food Science & Nutrition","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fsn3.70002","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Stevioside is a natural sweetener with the characteristics of low calorie and high sweetness. It comprises a diverse range of monomers that play crucial roles in numerous biological processes. Due to these attributes, it has gained widespread application in agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical industries. As a substitute for sugar, stevioside also shows good pharmacological activities on glucose metabolism, bodyweight keeping, blood pressure maintenance, and shows anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, anti-tumor, antibacterial, and immune regulation activities. This review summarized the update on the food safety, sweet structure–activity relationship, pharmacological activity of stevia glycosides recently, and discussed the limitations of its application in food and medicine.
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Food Science & Nutrition is the peer-reviewed journal for rapid dissemination of research in all areas of food science and nutrition. The Journal will consider submissions of quality papers describing the results of fundamental and applied research related to all aspects of human food and nutrition, as well as interdisciplinary research that spans these two fields.
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