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The present study studies the ideal concentration of natural sweetener Stevia in jams developed from grapes reduced in their natural carbohydrates, through a Central Location Test, from a panel of 123 consumers from the city of Olavarria (Argentina), in an age range of 15-65 years. Each of the consumers received 6 samples of jam with different concentrations of Stevia sweetener. For each sample, consumers had to answer according to their degree of acceptability if: "It is less sweet than I like it", "It is sweet as I like it" or "It is sweeter than I like it". The optimal concentration was 3.74% (w / w), which means that 5.61 g of the Stevia sweetener is equivalent to 100 g of common sugar, for which purpose the Cut Point technique was applied applying the Statistical Survival Methodology.

The presence of cadmiun in the environment has increased in the last century by anthropogenic factors. Clay minerals have proven to be useful as adsorbents of, among other substances, heavy metals; due to the high availability and low cost of the process. In this work, we evaluated the effectiveness of two clays with medium percentage of kaolinitic mineral available in Argentina, one with an ordered structure and the other with a disordered structure to remove Cd(II) from aqueous solutions. Under the operated conditions (initial concetration of Cd(II) 2-75 mg/L, 100 mL solution, 2 g/L of clay, 180 min of stirring, 22ºC) it was concluded that the disordered kaolinite has a greater adsorption capacity at low concentrations of Cd(II while orderly structure kaolinite for high Cd(II) concentrations. In addition, it was observed that the adsorption process can be effectively studied using the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms