The main active ingredient in Fructus Momordicae Extract is Mogroside. It is a low-calorie sweetener. It is made with Luo Han Guo as raw material and processed through technology. The total content of Mogroside in dried fruits is 3.775-3.858%. This article will introduce the advantages of Monk Fruit as a sweetener.
Why Use Mogroside Sweetener?
1. Application Advantage
Mogroside has high sweetness, low calories, good water solubility, and stability. It is stable in a neutral aqueous solution at 100°C and will not be destroyed when heated in the air at 120°C for a long time. Tolerance to heat or acid and alkali is also excellent. Aspartame sugar substitutes tend to lose their sweetness when heated.
2. Effect Advantage
Monk Fruit is traditional Chinese medicine and food homologous plant. Folk medicine in Guangxi has a history of more than 300 years.
Traditional medicine believes that Luo Han Guo can nourish the lungs, relieve cough, cool the blood, and moisturize the bowel. Pharmacology proves that Luo Han Guo has pharmacological effects such as reducing cough and expectorating, regulating the movement of the digestive tract, and enhancing the body's immunity. In addition to being a sweetener, it also has other functional effects on human health. Mogrosides may also have the possibility of improving insulin sensitivity.
Monk Fruit vs. Stevia
Both steviol glycosides and Mogroside can be used as natural sweeteners. Both are not involved in human metabolism and do not cause blood sugar to rise. However, the taste of stevia is different from that of sucrose. And the aftertaste is bitter, so it needs to be used with other sweeteners. Fructus Momordicae Extract can be used directly in daily meals. The yield of Mogroside is small, and the extraction is harrowing. Therefore, it is expensive. In contrast, stevia has a high work and low cost, and it is more widely used commercially. Compared with stevia, although the related products of Monk fruit are still niche, the development potential is quite noticeable.
What can it use for?
Fructus Momordicae Extract can be used as a sweetener or substitute for sucrose in all kinds of foods, especially for sugar for obesity and diabetes patients. The FDA approved Mogroside for food in 2002. Currently, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and other countries have allowed it to be used as a food additive. Many manufacturers also use Mogroside to develop a variety of food and dietary supplements, such as throat lozenges and granules.
Qyherb is a Fructus Momordicae Extract supplier. Our products are made into stable powders through processing steps. You only need to add water and food-grade ethanol to dissolve the sweet substances in Luo Han Guo. Compared with other sugar substitutes, the operation is more superficial.