Fashion Sweetener —— Monk Fruit Sugar

Monk Fruit Extract is a natural sweetener extracted from the monk fruit, which is also known as luo han guo or “Buddha fruit”.Monk fruit contains natural sugars, mainly fructose and glucose. The sweetener is created by removing the seeds and skin of the fruit and crushing it to collect the juice, which is then dried into a concentrated powder.
However, unlike in most fruits, the natural sugars in monk fruit aren’t responsible for its sweetness. Instead, it gets its intense sweetness from unique antioxidants called mogrosides. During processing, mogrosides are separated from the fresh-pressed juice. Therefore, monk fruit sweetener does not contain fructose or glucose.Because Monk Fruit Extract may be 100–250 times sweeter than table sugar, many manufacturers mix monk fruit sweetener with other natural products, such as inulin or erythritol, to reduce the intensity of the sweetness.
Monk fruit extract is now used as a standalone sweetener, an ingredient in food and drinks, a flavor enhancer, and a component of sweetener blends.

Monk fruit contains a variety of cucurbitane triterpene glycosides, collectively known as mogrosides; this type of compound is the main active substance in monk fruit, accounting for about 4% of the dry fruit weight. Most of these compounds are sweet ingredients or slightly sweet substances, which can be used as sweeteners for food and dishes, and are ideal sugar substitutes for diabetics. In addition to strong sweet ingredients such as cucurbitane triterpene glycosides, it also contains low-sweet ingredients such as D-mannitol and flavonoid glycosides.
In addition to sweet ingredients, Monk fruit also contains protein, a variety of essential helium acids and a variety of trace elements, reducing sugars and rich vitamins C and E. The seeds also contain a large amount of essential plant unsaturated fatty acids such as Oleic Acid, Linoleic Acid and Palmitic Acid. It can be seen that Luo Han Guo not only provides low-calorie triterpene glycoside sweetness components, but also has high nutritional value.
The traditional extraction and refining process of Mogroside mainly uses inorganic adsorbents and inorganic decolorizers, such as activated carbon, magnesium oxide series, magnesium silicate series, etc. The operation process is complicated and cannot be industrialized. Because saponins are extremely large and difficult to separate from pigments, most of the current processes generally use water or a certain amount of water-containing ethanol heating extraction, resin adsorption separation and refining technology, but the combination of this technology is mainly for Luo Han Guo gourd Alkanes triterpene glycosides are extracted and refined, other beneficial components and flavor substances are basically lost, and the utilization rate of resources is relatively low.

Monk fruit extract is widely used in food, medicine, health products and other fields.
Food field: Monk fruit extract can be used as a food additive to provide natural color and flavor, and can also be preserved and kept fresh.
Medical field: Monk fruit extract is rich in bioactive components such as flavonoids and polyphenols, which can be used to prepare anti-oxidant, blood fat-lowering, blood-sugar-lowering, anti-cancer and other drugs.
Health products field: Luo Han Guo extract can be used to prepare health drinks, health food and other products, which have the functions of nourishing health, beautifying skin and so on.

In the application of monk fruit extract, it is not only related to the field of dried fruit. The applications you mentioned are very extensive, and people are gradually paying attention to the application of natural plant extracts, and the application of Luo Han Guo extract should also be more and more.

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