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Sweet Green Fields opens 1,000 MT extraction facility in China

12 June 2009

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Sweet Green Fields (SGF), a US company to commercialize and patent the extraction of high purity Rebaudioside A (Reb-A) has opened a 160,000 square-foot, extraction facility in China.

The facility will allow SGF to double its production to meet the growing needs of consumer’s desires to replace caloric sugar with an all-natural, no calorie alternative as ‘real’ as sugar, especially in beverages and snacks.

SGF’s natural sweetener, high purity Reb-A 97%, is considered to be 200-300 times sweeter then sucrose. It is an all-natural, high-intensity and zero calorie, low Glycemic sweetener extracted from the stevia leaf.

Reb-A is one of 10 glycosides in the Stevia plant, native to Paraguay.

Stevia in its raw form has been used as a natural sweetener for centuries in South America.

The company says Japan began to replace artificial sweeteners with Stevia in the 1970s and now uses it in 40% of its diet sweetener market.


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