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Monk fruit (produce) — Ingredient · Foodgeist
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Monk fruit
Siraitia grosvenorii (monk fruit or luo han guo) is a herbaceous perennial vine of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, native to southern China and northern Thailand. The plant is cultivated for its fruit, whose extract is nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar and has been used in Chi
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Siraitia grosvenorii (monk fruit or luo han guo) is a herbaceous perennial vine of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, native to southern China and northern Thailand. The plant is cultivated for its fruit, whose extract is nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar and has been used in China as a low-calorie sweetener for cooling drinks and in traditional Chinese medicine.
“Iso-sweet concentrations of sweeteners (sucralose, sucrose, fructose, stevia, monk fruit) in RTM vanilla whey protein beverages (25 g of protein/360 mL of water) were established using magnitude estimation scaling and 2-alternative forced-choice testing.”
“the influence of different concentrations of monk fruit sweetener on the physicochemical properties and microbiological counts of drinking yogurt made from camel milk”
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