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单词 stevioside
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Definition of stevioside in English:

stevioside

noun ˈstiːvɪə(ʊ)sʌɪdˈstēvēəˌsīd
mass noun
  • A sweet compound of the glycoside class obtained from the leaves of a Paraguayan shrub and used as a food sweetener.

    The shrub is Stevia rebaudiana (family Compositae)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the past 10 years, the United States has three times vetoed applications to use stevioside as a food additive, and the agent has suffered the same fate in European Union, Canada and Singapore.
    • The substances responsible for the plant's sweetness are chemicals called glycosides, primarily one dubbed stevioside, which are concentrated in the leaves.
    • In summary, the use of stevioside as a sweetener has been a raging international controversy for years and I just found out about it today.
    • The green leaves of this plant contain large amounts (up to 5 percent of dry weight) of stevioside, a sweetener estimated to be 300 times as sweet as table sugar.
    • Researchers found that the main chemical in stevioside causes changes in the genes of laboratory animals.

Origin

1930s: from the genus name Stevia (see stevia).

 
 

Definition of stevioside in US English:

stevioside

nounˈstēvēəˌsīd
  • A sweet compound of the glycoside class obtained from the leaves of a Paraguayan shrub and used as a food sweetener.

    The shrub is Stevia rebaudiana (family Compositae)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In summary, the use of stevioside as a sweetener has been a raging international controversy for years and I just found out about it today.
    • Researchers found that the main chemical in stevioside causes changes in the genes of laboratory animals.
    • The green leaves of this plant contain large amounts (up to 5 percent of dry weight) of stevioside, a sweetener estimated to be 300 times as sweet as table sugar.
    • In the past 10 years, the United States has three times vetoed applications to use stevioside as a food additive, and the agent has suffered the same fate in European Union, Canada and Singapore.
    • The substances responsible for the plant's sweetness are chemicals called glycosides, primarily one dubbed stevioside, which are concentrated in the leaves.

Origin

1930s: from the genus name Stevia (see stevia).

 
 
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