As the world’s largest producer of stevia leaf extracts, we believe natural is better. While other manufacturers or sellers of stevia often rely on fermentation technologies to synthesize their supply at sufficient scale, Nascent Health Sciences is focused on naturally grown and farmed stevia. We’ve invested tens of millions of dollars in research & development on extraction technologies to improve...
IFT18 Recap: Where Science, Food, and SoPure Meet
IFT18 Recap: Where Science, Food, and SoPure Meet This year’s IFT18 Annual Meeting & Food Expo was yet another spectacular industry event and exhibition of the latest in food and science. With over 23,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors, the SoPure and Nascent Health teams were there on hand to showcase our newest stevia formulations and...
SoPure Innovation in the Spotlight with Prepared Foods
Alex Woo, PhD., and Chief Innovation Officer for Nascent Health Sciences, was recently featured in Prepared Foods to discuss Nascent’s outlook for the stevia industry and how new forms of stevia are poised to drive the natural sweeteners marketplace forward. The story profiles Dr. Woo’s presentation last year at the Prepared Foods R&D Applications Seminar,...
SoPure’s Chicago Roadshow
The SoPure team has enjoyed a busy November so far with our Chicago roadshow at the IFT Annual Suppliers’ Night on November 1st and the 2017 Sweetener Systems Conference on November 7th. Chicago Suppliers’ IFT is the largest regional IFT show in the US. Hank Wang was on hand to showcase and sample a grape beverage formula deliciously...
SoPure Featured in FoodNavigator
As part of its recent coverage on IFT 2017, FoodNavigator featured a brief profile of Nascent Health Sciences, global market representative and seller of SoPure stevia. The story discusses SoPure’s specialty in producing high purity stevia extracts, including Reb A, B, C, D and M, and also mentions the company’s expansion initiatives to double...
Bloomberg: War on Sugar Has Food Giants Vying to Make Stevia Tastier
Demand for Stevia Has Grown 3X Since 2011 This recent article from Bloomberg chronicles how sales of stevia has soared into a $4 billion global industry over the past decade. Food and beverage companies such as Coca Cola, Heinz, Nestle, and many more are increasingly turning to stevia as a sugar alternative and the zero-calorie natural...
The Stages of Sugar Withdrawal
Sugar is Highly Addictive, Break the Habit With Stevia Hello, dear reader, and welcome back to the SoPure Stevia blog! If you’ve been keeping up with our blog posts these past few months, you have probably noticed a similar theme: sugar is bad. As one of the world’s leading providers of stevia and stevia extracts,...
Stevia Use For Diabetics
If You are Diabetic, Stevia Might be the Wonder Sweetener You Need According to a survey conducted by the Center For Disease Control in 2014, it is estimated that 29.1 million people in the United States Suffer from either type I or type II diabetes. To put it in another form, that means that a...
6 Reasons To Use Stevia Is The Best Sugar Alternative
Stevia Sweetens in a Safe, Healthy Way Though the United States government is still skeptical of the benefits of stevia, the citizens have found that stevia not only works as an incredible sweetener but does not carry the same adverse health effects as sugar and other sugar substitutes. Here at SoPure Stevia, one of the...
Common Effects Sugar Has On The Body
Sugar is Really not Good for You Here at SoPure Stevia, we feel that sugar has become dangerously acceptable. Until relatively recently, the majority of sugar that people consumed was in the form of natural sugars found in the foods that they ate. These sugars have been dealt with by humans for thousands of years...