{"id":159,"date":"2008-06-03T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/stevia-hits-the-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:06:26","slug":"stevia-hits-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/stevia-hits-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevia Hits the Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most people know, the natural sweetener Stevia is not approved as a sweetener in the US, and therefore <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ICECI\/EnforcementActions\/WarningLetters\/2007\/ucm076475.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">cannot be used in food products<\/a>.\u00a0 It can only legally be sold as a dietary supplement.<\/p>\n<p>Change may be in the wind, however.\u00a0 Agribusiness giant Cargill has teamed with Coca-Cola on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081205055741\/http:\/\/www.cargill.com:80\/rebiana\/ps_rebiana_faq.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebiana<\/a>, a more highly purified, stevia sweetener.\u00a0 Cargill is pretty serious about it, as it just inked a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients.com\/Suppliers2\/GLG-signs-10-year-stevia-supply-contract-with-Cargill\" rel=\"noopener\">10 year supply agreement for stevia extract <\/a>with GLG Life Tech, and has recently published a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodproductdesign.com\/news\/2008\/05\/stevia-based-rebiana-sweetener-studies-published.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">series of toxicological studies as part of the FDA approval process<\/a>.\u00a0 Although the studies are still &#8220;in press&#8221; and not officially\u00a0available, the limited info released so far\u00a0confirms what most people already knew: stevia looks to be pretty safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most people know, the natural sweetener Stevia is not approved as a sweetener in the US, and therefore cannot be used in food products.\u00a0 It can only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}