“…Replacing the extraction solvent by alcohol solution can modify the composition of the extract and produce a higher clarity (Martins, et al, 2016), but it also significantly increases the production cost, and the downstream purification is still required. Innovative extraction technology including pressurised hot water extraction (Kovačević, et al, 2018b) and deep eutectic solvents (Milani, et al, 2020) can also produce the extract of high SG and low impurity content; thus, they are promising alternatives to aqueous extraction once the commercial equipment is available. Membrane technologies can effectively purify stevia extract (Mondal, et al, 2012;Das, et al, 2015;Dıáz-Montes, et al, 2020), however, the SGs recovery is only about 40~50%, and the phenolic compounds cannot be completely isolated.…”