Stevioside Modification in Biological Enzyme Method

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Shandong Huaxian Stevia Co, Ltd

Stevioside Modification in Biological Enzyme Method

Function and application fields of the product: With the increase of life standard, incidence of diabetes, adiposity, high blood pressure and child decayed tooth etc. is higher and higher. Therefore, more and more are appealing to forbid sugar. While as a new kind sugar resource, stevioside has many virtues, such as high saccharinity, low heat energy, non-sugar, non-nutrition and high stability. It is the recognized health care food and natural green sweetener in the international. It accords with the health care requirement of modern diets and can substitute the chemical compound sweetener and part of cane sugar. Besides, it can apparently prevent diabetes, adiposity and high blood pressure etc. and has obvious assistant curative effect. This product is a kind of pure natural, green sweetener with low energy which is refined from the herbaceous plant stevia. Its saccharinity is 200-300 times of that of cane sugar while its heat quantity is only 1/200-1/300 of it. It has the following virtues, including safety, innocuity, no side-effect, no metabolism in human body, no accumulation, low heat value and decayed tooth prevention. The diabetes and adiposis patients can take it directly. It is fit for food, medicine, cosmetic, cigarette and wine etc. Brief introduction of technical features This technique is modified and rebuilt from the later section of the technical flow of 2002 Star & Fire Plan Project by adding biological enzyme. It overcame the disadvantages of stevia and can compare with the advanced foreign techniques. It filled the domestic blank and reached the highest technical level in the world. Compared with foreign and domestic like products This is a patented technique of our company. And the core technique of biological enzyme modification is initiated at home. It filled the domestic blank and was advanced in the international. Currently, only a few companies in Japan and Korea can reach this level. Its advantages, quality ratio and hi-tech content all surpass that of the domestic like products. Promotion and driving force to this industry and relevant industries It brought along its own industry, promoted opening, renewal and replacement of techniques in this industry, widened its application scope and kept the domestic techniques on the same level with the world. Besides, upgrade of the products promoted the adjustment of the agricultural planting structure, increased the planting area and contributed greatly to industry restructuring. Brought along by the company, stevioside industry all over the country will get great-leap-forward development which hence will greatly increase the planting areas all over the country. It is of great significance to the rural and industry structure restructuring and promotes further development of stevio industry. For the driving of the company and extension of the techniques, the Chinese stevioside industry got a big leap in techniques. It should always master the world high and new techniques and make the stevioside industry more powerful and strong.

In recent years, with the gradual increase of life standard, people recognized that, in order to improve life quality, it is healthier to take stevioside with high saccharinity and low heat value than to take the common cane sugar. This promotes the changes from cane sugar to stevioside in all industries and also offers spacious market for stevioside entering directly into the household. Based on the statistic data from China Stevia Association, at present, the domestic demand on stevioside modified from enzyme method is near 1000 tons. However, most of the over ten stevioside companies are producing in small scale and their products are with low-grade and bad quality. They are incapable to produce stevioside in enzyme modification method. Therefore, this project is much competitive in the domestic market and the market share is 100%. In the world, the hi-tech experts honor stevioside as “new sugar resource for human health in 21st century”. In Southeast Asia, Europe and America, they paid much attention to stevioside. And in the exported products to those countries, such as the drink Jianlibao and cans, they mentioned to use stevioside as the sweetener. The stevioside modified in biological enzyme method is still at development stage. As is predicted by the international experts, its economic life will be at least 15-20 years. And the stevioside modified in enzyme method attracts experts to extend its new application in food, drink, medicine and chemical industry etc. for its good quality, unique efficacy and good stability. Currently, the annual demand of Japan and Korea is around 5000 tons and the Europe and America market demand is 2000 tons. Besides, it is increasing at the rate of 1000 tons each year and the output is far away from the market demand. Our company is exporting at the scale of 100%. Therefore, the product is also much competitive in the international market. According to the statistic of China Stevia Association, the annual demand of only Japan and Korea will be 2000 tons. In European and American market, it is 1600 tons and 800 tons in domestic market. And they are increasing at the annual rate of 20%. The international market demand is 5000tons/year. In 2003, the total supply in international and domestic market is only 2000 tons. So far, it has been regarded as the important development project in China and even in the world. Therefore, this project has great development foreground. This project is with high hi-tech content and added-value. And there is no other domestic company which can realize it. The technique is advanced at home and abroad and it filled the domestic blank. As the “new sugar resource for human health in 21st century”, stevioside is widely used in many household. In the recent years, while Shandong Huaxian Stevia Co, Ltd. made good use of the local resources advantages and associated with the real situation of the company, it adjusted its development route, layout and measures in time and brought the whole process of pre-production, medium-term production and post-production of agriculture into the orbit of regulated management and service system of the group. Relying on its scientific and technical advancement, it adjusted its product structure, improved its hi-tech content and constructed a bridge through the international market. It effectively promoted the structural adjustment of the local agriculture, changed the dispersed condition into concentrated one and by setting the cock enterprise as the major market, it relied on the economic power, techniques, information, sales channel, processing and preservation and transportation etc. of the company to reduce the cost of production and sales and the waste for the production fluctuation. It developed the industrialized agriculture in the basic mode of “company + base + farmer”, increased the farmers’ income, enlarged the countryside market, increased financial revenue and promoted stable and fast economic development.