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Luo Han Guo Extract: Nature's Sweet Mystery

Luo Han Guo is China's traditional medicine and food plants, native to the tropical and subtropical mountainous areas, the history of medicinal use in folk medicine has been more than 300 years. Luo Han Guo is rich in vitamin C, E, fructose, essential amino acids, trace elements and other nutrients, as well as containing flavonoids, polysaccharides, sweet glycosides and polyphenols and other active ingredients. Strong sweet non-sugar triterpenoids Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside (mogroside) is the main active ingredient, of which Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside V content is the most abundant. And because of the sweetness of Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside, low calorie, light color, good water solubility and stability, safe for consumption.

Active Ingredient: Lohan Guo sweet glucoside, Lohan Guo sweet glucoside V

Detection method: HPLC

Appearance: brownish yellow to creamy white powder

Luo Han Guo (Siraitia grosvenorii, or Momordica grosvenorii), that is mangosteen of cucurbitaceous family, the ripe fruit of a kind of perennial grass liana. There have been thousands of years that Chinese have known to soak the Luo Han Guo in water as a drink. Traditional of Chinese medicine as well applies it to cure disease, such as high blood pressure, pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma, gastritis, whooping cough, acute & chronic tracheitis and acute & chronic tonsillitis, etc. As a non nutritive sweetener and flavor enhancer, it can be used in flavors, foods, beverages, gums, baked foods, dietary supplements, powdered drinks, nutritional bars. chocolates and so on.

It is proved by recent researches that mogrosides is the main effective medical components. Luo Han Guo fruit and its extract are dual-use in therapeutic and health products. At present, Luo Han Guo is allowed to use as a food additive in these countries: Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Britain, and China, etc.

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