date:Aug 25, 2014
been used as sweeteners in their native countries for hundreds of years.
Last year, global demand for stevia extract was slightly more than two thousand metric tons, which is quite small when compared to demand for some of the more established sweeteners such as saccharin or cyclamate, concluded Hackett, but demand is growing in both developed and developing markets, and by 2018, we expect demand for stevia extract to reach three thousand to four thousand metric tons annually.