Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Department of Food Science and Technology, Hawassa University, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Evaluation of Dried Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana bertoni) Leaf and its Infusion Nutritional Profile
  Author(s): Abdela Befa*, Abadi Gebre and Tesfu Bekele
  
  Stevia is a recently cultivated kitchen garden as vegetables and on a large scale by entrepreneurs in Ethiopia for herbal production due to its potential uses as the sweetener (250-330 times sweeter than table sugar). The demand for Stevia currently increased due to its low calories and medicinal values. However, there is no such information about their Nutritional profile evaluation in dried form and its infusion in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate of dried Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana bertoni) Leaf and its infusion Nutritional profile. The dried Stevia leaf had 5.5 g/100 g moisture, 8.2 g/100 g ash,16.2 g/100 g crude protein, 3.8 g/100 g crude fat, 7.9 g/100 g crude fiber, 58.8 g/100 g carbohydrate,359.6 mg/100 g Ca, 102.9 mg/100 g Na,347.4 mg/100 g K, 324.1 mg/100 g Mg, 297.9 mg/100 g Fe, 3.7 mg/100 g Zn, 1.1 mg/1.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0412.20.9.360

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