"Fairy Fruit" Luo Han Guo, the best sugar substitute for obese people!

Original title: "Fairy Fruit" Luo Han Guo, the best sugar substitute for obese people!

Luo Han Guo is a traditional Chinese medicinal and edible food, and it is also the first batch of Chinese herbal medicines with "medicine and food homology" in China, with good efficacy

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In Guangxi, Luo Han Guo is a relatively common traditional Chinese medicinal material.

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As early as the Guangxu period in China, there was a narrative of Luo Han Guo.

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Of course, it is also said that a doctor named Luohan found it when he went up the mountain to collect herbs, but the plots are all the same, and they are all named after their ancestors

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Monk fruit cultivation in China has a long history, more than 300 years ago, and it is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places

Guilin, Guangxi is the largest plantation area of ​​Luo Han Guo in China, and its planting scale and output account for about 90% of the country's total.

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According to statistics from the Guilin Ministry of Rural Affairs and Agriculture, in 2020, the planting area of ​​Luo Han Guo in Guilin will reach 155,000 mu, the output is expected to exceed 1.

As of 2021, the Guangxi Luo Han Guo industrial cluster covers a total planting area of ​​more than 300,000 mu, with an annual output of 210,000 tons and a total output value of nearly 10 billion yuan

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Monk fruit is rich in sweet substances - mogroside, which is about 300 times sweeter than sucrose and is a high-intensity sweetener

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Mogroside is a commonly used sweetener for ketogenic-friendly products, which is high in sweetness but extremely low in calories

In 1996, China approved mogroside as a food additive, which can be used as a sweetener to partially or completely replace sucrose and be widely used in various foods

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Restricted by geographical factors, although there are more than 200 manufacturers of mogroside in China, all of them are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises.

Of course, in addition to being a natural sweetener, many manufacturers also use mogroside to develop a variety of food and dietary supplements, such as throat lozenges, beverages, granules,
etc.

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Development Prospects of Mogrosides in my country

According to Spins data, in 2021, mogrosides will rank first among natural sweeteners in the U.
S.
market with a growth rate of 23%, mainly due to the pharmacological benefits and clean label properties of Luohanguo itself
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Compared with the more mature application of Luo Han Guo abroad, although China is the main producing area of ​​Luo Han Guo, its application and development are still in the development stage, and its popularity as a sugar substitute is far less than that of erythritol and stevia
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Although mogroside is still relatively unpopular in China at present, it is believed that with the further research on mogroside in China and the changing demand for sugar substitutes, the excellent properties of mogroside may have greater development potential in the future
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And from the current application field of compound sugar, there are more and more scenarios where natural high-intensity sweeteners and natural low-intensity sweeteners are used in combination in the food field.
The most ideal healthy and harmless high-intensity sweetener of glycosides, its demand growth momentum is significant, and its development prospects are bright
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References | Food Research Institute FTA, Guangxi Guilin Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Nanning Customs

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