Monk fruit, also known as Siraitia grosvenorii or Lo Han Guo, is a natural high-potency sweetener 150 – 250 times as sweet as sugar. It’s an ingredient commonly used by food & beverage product manufacturers for sugar reduction and replacement. In such applications, it comes with the added benefit of being labelled with fruit in the product name.

In addition to being a zero-calorie sweetener, monk fruit extract is rich in Vitamin C as well as other nutrients that offer a variety of benefits:

• Kaempferol, a flavonoid with antimicrobial and antioxidant effects
• Triterpene glycosides, compounds that can assist in reduction in the growth of tumour cells
• Antioxidants mogroside I-V which can inhibit oxidative damage
• Cucurbitacins, compounds with anti-inflammatory effects
• Polysaccharide fibres, which may lower cholesterol levels Monk Fruit Juice Concentrate is a thick juice concentrate, light yellow to amber, with 3.3-3.7% Mogroside V content

A less intense option (at 15x the sweetness of Sugar) than the 50% Mogroside powder and is ideally suited for Beverage and Dairy Applications.