The active compounds of stevia are steviol glycosides , which have up to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH-stable, and not fermentable.
These steviosides have a negligible effect on blood glucose, which makes stevia attractive to people on carbohydrate-controlled diets. Stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, and some of its extracts may have a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.
