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PRESENTATIONON

PLANT SWEETENERS

Presented by:Parnam Singh Gill

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PLANT SWEETENERS

Sweeteners of one kind or another have been found in

human diets since prehistoric times and are types of

carbohydrates and use them in foods for several reasons

other than sweetness.

Sweeteners can be nutritive or non-nutritive.

Nutritive sweeteners provide calories or energy.

Non-nutritive sweeteners do not provide calories and arereferred to as artificial sweeteners

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Stevia

Biological Source :- Sweet leaves of the plant Steviarebaudiana, belonging to familyAsteraceae.

Chemical Constituents:- the main constituents are thesteviol, stevioside, rebaudiosides A and C and dulcoside A.

Uses:-

Used in food products, soft drinks and for table use.

Used as an sweetening agent.

Steviol

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Honey

Biological Source:- Sugar secretion depoisted in honeycomb by the bees, Apis mellifera, Apis dorsata and other

species of Apis, belonging to familyApidae.

Chemical Constituents:-

Aq solution of glucose 35%, fructose 45%, and sucrose

about 2% .

Other constituents are maltose, gum, acetic acid,enzymes.

Glucose

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Uses:-

Used as a demulcent and sweetening agent.

It is antiseptic and applied to burns and wounds.

Used in preparation of creams, lotions, soft drinks and

candies also.

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Liquorice

Biological Source:- Dried, peeled or unpeeled,

root and stolon of Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn.,belonging to familyLeguminosae.

Chemical Constituents:-

Glycyrrhizin is a potassium and calcium salts

of glycyrrhizinic acid on hydrolysis yieldglycyrrhetinic acid.

Other constituent are glucose, sucrose,

asparagin and fat.

Glycyrrhetinic acid

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Uses:-

Used as an sweetening agent, expectorant and demulcent.

Used as an flavouring agent.

Used in peptic ulcer in the form of deglycyrrhized

liquorice (DGL)

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Gymnema

Biological Source:- Leaves of a perennial woody climber

plant Gymnema sylvestre , familyAsclepiadaceae.

Chemical Constituents:- Leaves contain phytin, resin,tartaric acid, formic acid, butyric acid, gymnemic acid and

anthraquinone derivatives.

Uses:- Used as antidiabetic, stomachic, stimulant, laxativeand diuretic.

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Sugarcane

Biological Source:- Tall perennial true grasses of the

Saccharum officinarum, belonging to family Poaceae(Gramineae).

Chemical Constituents:- Contain 42% cellulose, 25%hemicellulose and 20% lignin.

Cellulose

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Uses:-

Mainly used for manufacture of jaggery or gur and sugar.

Used for preparation of juice, syrup and also for chewing

purpose.

Baggase is used as a fuel and for making paper.

Molasses is used for preparing alcohol and other

chemicals.

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Liquid Glucose

Biological Source:- Purified concentrated solution ofnutritive saccharides.

Chemical Constituents:- Contain 40% D(+) glucose,maltose, dextrin and about 20% water.

Uses:-

Used in jams, jellies, creams, ice-creams, bakery, tobacco.

Its Hygroscopic and non-crystalline property.

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