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(12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization I International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2016/023103 Al 18 February 2016 (18.02.2016) P O P C T (51) International Patent Classification: (74) Agent: BEN-OLIEL, Susan Margaret; Fasken Martineau C07H 15/256 (2006.01) A61K 36/28 (2006.01) DuMoulin LLP, 2900-550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC A23L 1/236 (2006.01) C07H 15/24 (2006.01) V6C 0A3 (CA). 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[Continued on next page] (54) Title: METHODS OF EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION FROM STEVIA REBA UDIANA OF COMPOSITIONS WITH ENHANCED REBAUDIOSIDE-M CONTENT, USES OF SAID COMPOSITION AND NATURAL SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS WITH SAID COMPOSI TION (57) Abstract: A method for purifying Reb M includes preparing a crude mother liquor/ ev rebaudiana primary extract, passing a solution of this primary extract through a multi-column system including a plurality of columns, in series, packed with a porous adsorbent resin to provide at least one column having adsorbed Reb M and eluting fractions with Reb M con tent from a final/last column in the series to provide an eluted solution with Reb M content. o o Figure 1 w o 2016/023103 Al III III II II III I IIII I II IIII Published: METHODS OF EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION FROM STEVIA REBA UDIANA OF COMPOSITIONS WITH ENHANCED REBAUDIOSIDE-M CONTENT, USES OF SAID COMPOSITION AND NATURAL SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS WITH SAID COMPOSITION FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates generally to methods of extracting natural products from plants, in particular from Stevia rebaudiana. BACKGROUND In the food and beverage industry, there is a general preference for the consumption of sweet foods, and manufacturers and consumers commonly add sugar in the form of sucrose (table sugar), fructose or glucose to beverages, food, etc. to increase the sweet quality of the beverage or food item. Although most consumers enjoy the taste of sugar, sucrose, fructose and glucose are high calorie sweeteners. Many alternatives to these high calorie sweeteners are artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes, which can be added as an ingredient in various food items. Common artificial sweeteners include saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose. Unfortunately, these artificial sweeteners have been associated with negative side effects. Therefore, alternative, natural non-caloric or low-caloric or reduced caloric sweeteners have been receiving increasing demand as alternatives to the artificial sweeteners and the high calorie sweeteners comprising sucrose, fructose and glucose. Like some of the artificial sweeteners, these alternatives provide a greater sweetening effect than comparable amounts of caloric sweeteners; thus, smaller amounts of these alternatives are required to achieve sweetness comparable to that of sugar. These alternative, natural sweeteners, however, can be expensive to produce and/or possess taste characteristics different than sugar (such as sucrose), including, in some instances, undesirable taste characteristics such as sweetness linger, delayed sweetness onset, negative mouth feels and different taste profiles, such as off-tastes, including bitter, metallic, cooling, astringent, licorice like tastes.. Steviol glycosides are responsible for the sweet taste of the leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni). These compounds range in sweetness from 40 to 300 times sweeter than sucrose. They are heat-stable, pH-stable, and do not ferment. 1 They also do not induce a glycemic response when ingested, making them attractive as natural sweeteners to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets. The chemical structures of the diterpene glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni are presented in Figure 1. The physical and sensory properties are well studied generally only for Stevioside (STV) and Rebaudioside A. The sweetness potency of Stevioside is around 210 times higher than sucrose, Rebaudioside A is between 200 and 400 times, and Rebaudioside C is between 40 and 50 times and Dulcoside A around 30 times. Traditionally, Rebaudioside A is considered to have the most favorable sensory attributes of the four major steviol glycosides (see Table 1): TABLE 1 Optica! rotation . (HjO, Solubility R lative Quality of Name Formula C. Weight 1%, ) in water, % sweetness taste Steviol 212-213 318.45 ND ND ND Very bitter St vi l a sid ND 480.58 ND ND ND ND Stevioside 196-198 804.88 -39.3 0. 210 Bitter Rebaudioside A 242-244 967.01 -20.8 0.80 200-400 Less Bitter Rebaudioside 3- 195 8 4.88 -45.4 0. 0 150 Bitter R ba dio 215-217 9 1. 1 -29.9 0.2! 30 Bitter Rebaudioside I> 248-249 129.15 -29,5 1.00 220 Like sucrose han l) Rebaudioside E 205-207 967.01 - 34.2 1.70 o Like sucrose Rebaudioside ND 936.99 -25.5 Nl> m tl i D l o ide A J- 195 788.87 -50.2 0.5* 30 Very bitter tevi bi side 8- 1 2 642,7.3 -34.5 0.03 90 Unpleasant R bu sid ND 642.73 642.73 ND o Very bitter ' Brandle, Jim (2004-08-1 9). "FAQ - Stevia, Nature's Natural Low Calorie Sweetener". Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Retrieved 2006-1 -08. Stevia rebaudiana , after extraction and refinement is extensively used in the fields of foods, beverages, alcoholic liquor preparation, medicines, cosmetics, etc. In recent years, Stevia rebaudiana glycosides as extracts of Stevia rebaudiana have been used even more popularly as natural sweeteners and attractive alternatives to artificial sweeteners. They have become an excellent sweetening option since their caloric value is extremely low or nil and they do not cause adverse effects to dental patients and diabetic patients. The potential market is huge. So, Stevia rebaudiana glycosides mainly comprise the following nine components: Stevioside ( STV), Rebaudioside A (RA), rubusoside, dulcoside A ( DA), Rebaudioside C (RC), Rebaudioside F (RF), Rebaudioside D (RD), Steviolbioside (STB) , and Rebaudioside B (RB). Steviol glycosides are characterized structurally by a single base, steviol, differing by the presence of carbohydrate residues at positions C 3 and C19. They accumulate in Stevia leaves, composing approximately 10%-20% of the total dry weight. On a dry weight basis, the four major glycosides found in the leaves of Stevia typically include STV (9.1%), RA (3.8%), RC (0.6-1.0%) and dulcoside A (0.3%). RD, RB, RD, Rebaudioside E (RE), RF, Rebaudioside M (RM), STB and rubusoside. The diterpene known as steviol is the aglycone of stevia's sweet glycosides, which are constructed by replacing steviol's carboxyl hydrogen atom with glucose to form an ester, and replacing the hydroxyl hydrogen with combinations of glucose and rhamnose to form an ether. The two primary compounds, stevioside and rebaudioside A, use only glucose: Stevioside has two linked glucose molecules at the hydroxyl site, whereas rebaudioside A has three, with the middle glucose of the triplet connected to the central steviol structure. In terms of weight fraction, the four major steviol glycosides found in the "wild type'" stevia plant tissue are: • 5-1 0% stevioside (STV ) (250-300X of sugar) • 2-12% rebaudioside A (RA) — most sweet (350^15OX of sugar) ■ 1-2% rebaudioside C (RC) (40-5 OX of sugar) ■ ½-l % dulcoside A. ( DA ) RB, RD, RF and steviolbioside (STB) are known to be present in minute quantities; As noted above, stevia diterpene glycosides, have a single base—steviol—and differ by the presence of carbohydrate residues at positions C and C19. These glycosides accumulate in Stevia leaves and compose approximately 10%-20% of the total dry weight. Typically, on a dry weight basis, the four major glycosides found in the leaves of Stevia are Dulcoside A (0.3%), Rebaudioside C (0.6%), Rebaudioside A (3.8%) and Stevioside (9.1%). Other glycosides identified in Stevia extract include Rebaudioside B, C, D, E, F, and , Steviolbioside and Rubusoside.