Process for production of steviosides from stevia rebaudiana bertoni
AssigneeCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research
InventorsKotesh Jonnala, Babu Garikapati D. Kiran, Vijay Kaul, Paramvir Ahuja
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Abstract
A process for the production of steviosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni includes extraction of comminuted plant material by directly injecting steam into the extractor followed by filtration to get aqueous extract and alkali treatment to remove unwanted compounds in the form of precipitate. The treated aqueous extracted was filtered and the filtrate was first treated with gel or macroporous strong acid cation exchange resin and then with gel or macroporous weak base anion exchange resin. The aqueous eluant containing steviosides was concentrated to obtain purified steviosides.
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A process for the production of steviosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, which comprises drying plant material, followed by pulverization to 20 to 400 mesh size, extracting the pulverized plant material in a solvent consisting of demineralised water under heat, filtering the heated plant material to obtain an aqueous extract, treating the aqueous extract with a basic salt to form a clear precipitate, separating the precipitate, treating the separated clear filtrate with an ion exchange resin, followed by drying the treated filtrate to obtain a product containing steviosides having stevioside in the range from 40 to 70%.
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