Steviol Glycosides: Cultivation, Processing, Analysis and Applications in Food
CHAPTER 6: Presentation and Analysis of Other Constituents in the Leaves: Analysis of Lipids and Volatile Terpenes in Stevia rebaudiana
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Published:25 Oct 2018
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Special Collection: 2018 ebook collection
H. Karaköse, A. Golon, D. Sirbu, N. Kuhnert, 2018. "Presentation and Analysis of Other Constituents in the Leaves: Analysis of Lipids and Volatile Terpenes in Stevia rebaudiana", Steviol Glycosides: Cultivation, Processing, Analysis and Applications in Food, Ursula Wölwer-Rieck
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Stevia rebaudiana belongs to the Asteraceae family of plants and it is native to Paraguay. Stevia especially is known with its high sweetening property due to ent-kaurene glycosides present in the leaves.1 While there are several studies with steviol glycosides2 and poylphenolic secondary metabolites3,4 of stevia in the literature, there is a single study reporting its lipids content5 and one contribution describing its volatile terpenes.6 To allow a full chemical characterisation of stevia leaves a thorough profiling of its lipids was carried out. This chapter represents a summary of original research that has not been previously published in peer-reviewed journals.