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Products and Applications
Monk fruit contains unique, very sweet natural antioxidant compounds called mogrosides. These calorie-free compounds have a delicious, sweet taste without bitterness, making monk fruit an ideal choice for reducing sugar in a wide range of food and beverage products.
Monk fruit is a great-tasting, natural alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners and is now being used in a number of leading food and beverage brands.


Monk fruit extract:
Monk fruit extract is a very clean-tasting, natural, zero-calorie sweetener that is 150-200x sweeter than sugar.

Monk fruit juice concentrate:
Monk juice concentrate is 20x sweeter than apple juice and can reduce added sugar by up to 70% with a consumer-friendly, clean-label, fruit juice ingredient.


The monk fruit story
According to legend, monk fruit is named after the Buddhist monks who first cultivated it nearly 800 years ago. Monk fruit has a long history of use and has been consumed throughout Asia for centuries as a functional beverage and food ingredient.
A deliciously sweet super fruit
Monk fruit's amazing sweetness comes from unique, naturally occurring antioxidants found in the fruit that have a delicious, sweet taste, without the calories of sugar. By formulating with monk fruit, you can replace sugar and calories with great-tasting goodness from fruit.

All-natural process
Our growers have perfected a simple process too capture the natural, calorie-free sweetness of monk fruit, while maintaining its pure fruit goodness. Here's how it works:
crush
The fruit is crushed
to release its natural,
sweet juice.
infuse
The crushed fruit is mixed with hot water to make a sweet infusion.
filter
The infusion is filtered, leaving a clear,
sweet juice.
For our powdered extract the juice is filtered again to remove the natural fruit sugars, then spray dried.
monk fruit sweetness
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