date:Jun 22, 2012
entific and regulatory affairs manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Cargill's European research and development centre, told FoodNavigator:Steviol glycosides are made by the stevia plant and they accumulate on the leaves; they are extracted from the leaves of the stevia plant and technically are stevia extracts, a sweetener coming from the stevia.
The revised guidelines do now extend and accept the use of new wording to refer to this fact, therefore correctly referring that steviol