[Latin Name] Stevia rebaudiana

[Plant Source]from China

[Specifications] 1.Stevia Extract Powder (Steviosides)

Total Steviol Glycosides 80%, 90%, 95%

2. Rebaudioside-A

Rebaudioside-A 40%, 60%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98%

3. Stevioside 90%

One monomer in Steviol Glycosides

[Appearance] Fine white powder

Plant Part Used:Leaf

[Particle size] 80 Mesh

[Loss on drying] ≤5.0%

[Heavy Metal] ≤10PPM

[Shelf life] 24 Months

[Package] Packed in paper-drums and two plastic-bags inside.

[Net weight] 25kgs/drum

Stevia Extract

[Characteristics]

Stevia sugar features high sweetness and low calorie and its sweetness is 200 350  times of that  of cane sugar but its calorie is only 1/300 of that of cane sugar.

The component of stevia extract that gives it its sweetness is a mixture of various steviol glycosides. The components of sweetness in stevia leaves are stevioside, rebaudioside A, C, D, E and dulcoside A. Rebaudioside C, D, E and dulcoside A are small in quantity. The principal components are stevioside and rebaudioside A.

The quality of stevioside and rebaudiosideA is better than those of other components, which are commercially extracted and used in various applications.

The steviol glycosides present in stevia extract are referred to as “steviosides” or ¡°stevia extract¡±. Among these “steviosides”, the most common is Stevioside followed by RebaudiosideA. The Stevioside has a slight and pleasant herbal taste and the Rebaudioside-A has no herbal taste.

Although Rebaudioside C and dulcoside A are small in quantity in stevia extract, they are the major components giving bitter aftertaste.

[Function]

A large number of pharmaceutical tests have proved that stevia sugar has no side effects, carcinogens, and is safe for eating.

Compared with cane sugar, it can save 70% of the cost. With pure white color, pleasing taste and no peculiar smell, Stevia sugar is a new sugar source with broad perspective for development. Stevia rebaudianum sugar is the natural low hotsweet agent mostly similar to the flavor of cane sugar, approved to be used by State Ministry of Health and Ministry of Light Industry.

It is the third natural succedaneum of cane sugar and beet sugar with development and health care value, extracted from the leaves of the herbal vegetable of the composite family-stevia rebaudianum.

In this clip (4 of 10), Dr. Sasisekharan examines some of the key features of linear polysaccharides, with chrondroitin and heparin as examples.
This clip is part of a lecture, “Studying the Effects of Natural Products,” by Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D, Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering and Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This lecture, given at NIH in 2006, is part of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Online Continuing Education Series. Free CME/CEU credit is available to health professionals (see https://nccam.nih.gov/training/videolectures).

The Flow Hive for honey bees demonstrated some “potential” problems the first time around In this video, not only did the flow-frames NOT leak, but they yielded even more honey than the first time around. https://youtu.be/wh6PzdumZTo

RAW honey direct from the flow-frames into jars with no filtering, straining or processing/spinning. The honey bees do not have to apply as much wax as with traditional extracting processes generally demand of them and they only replace the cap wax.

How much honey in one flow frame? A Half Gallon!

Remember to remove only surplus honey, not the honey stores that your colony of honey bees need to survive winter or a summer dearth.

IF you have decided to get a FlowHive and would like to save $50.00 on your first purchase, please contact me and provide your e-mail address, I’ll take care of you from there!

NOTE: I am NOT compensated nor associated with FlowHive or the Flow Company/Inventors in any way. This is an independent evaluation and I purchased each flowhive directly from the FlowHive website or their Indigogo campaign.

In this video and in my apiary, I am using the the Classic Cedar 7 Frame Flow Supers. They match the 10 frame Langstroth style bee hive boxes.

Here is a link to the equipment shown in this video:

https://www.honeyflow.com/shop/flow-hive/flow-super/p/132

Here is a link to the refractometer used for water %

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008S2E4P4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What line of bees to I keep? Please follow this link to find out more.

https://www.beeweaver.com/our-story

Thank you for watching and I wish you well in your own celebration of the honey bees.