This Enzyme Is What Makes Stevia So Sweet
7th June 2022
Researchers have crystallized the enzyme that makes the natural product stevia taste 200 times as sweet as sugar. The enzyme is a uridine diphosphate–dependent glucosyltransferase, UGT76G1, and it catalyzes the addition of branched glucosides to compounds in stevia.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that.