Artificial Sweeteners

Health & Body
132

This is a great example of the ambiguities in food labelling. Yes steviol glycosides are extracted from a plant but when you look at the the Food Standard Code, you will see that many of the enzymes used in the extraction process are genetically modified. Since they are non-allergenic processing aids they won’t appear on label. I think it is extremely unlikely that novel protein or DNA is in the final product but I think it is arguable that steviol glycosides are a not natural product.