@article{10272/16959,
year = {2019},
month = {9},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16959},
abstract = {The food industry has currently shown great interest in alternative sweeteners to sugars
with the aim of producing healthier products. In light of this, steviol glycosides are natural
low-caloric sweeteners present in Stevia rebaudiana, which have additionally been described as
bioactive components with potential therapeutic properties. In this work, a green method for the
extraction of steviol glycosides from stevia leaves was optimized by applying a factorial screening
design of five variables (time, temperature, agitation, grinding, and sample–solvent ratio) and the
subsequent response surface design of Box-Behnken. The optimized extraction method allows for the
recovery of stevia sweeteners in a simple and e cient manner by using tap water as the extractant,
without the application of an auxiliary energy source to reduce costs, thus representing an interesting
strategy for their industrial-scale production.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Steviol glycosides},
keywords = {Green extraction},
keywords = {Stevia leaves},
keywords = {Stevioside},
keywords = {Rebaudioside A},
title = {Simple and Efficient Green Extraction of Steviol Glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana Leaves},
doi = {10.3390/foods8090402},
author = {López Carbón, Verónica and Sayago Gómez, Ana and González Domínguez, Raúl and Fernández Recamales, María Ángeles},
}