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peer-reviewed research article

Rebaudi's stevia: Natural noncaloric sweeteners

authors

Clinton C. Shock, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 36(9):4-5. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v036n09p4. September-October 1982.

abstract

Stevia, a Paraguayan plant that produces compounds 250 times as sweet as table sugar, is being studied for possible commercial production here.

author affiliations

Clinton C. Shock, former Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, is now Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Iberia Livestock Experiment Station, Jeanerette.