Brief Introduction

Synonyms--- Arhat fruit, Monk’s fruit, Luo Han Guo (Chinese:罗汉果), Longevity Fruit

Mogroside V(Esgoside)

Chemical Name: mogrol-3-O-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-6)-beta-D-glucopyranoside)-24-O- ((beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-2))-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl(1-6))-beta-D-glucopyranoside)
Molecular Formula: C₆₀H₁₀₂O₂₉ 

Mol. Wt.:1287.43

Molecular Structure:

Siraitia grosvenorii(Momordica grosvenori) is an herbaceous perennial vine and best known for its fruit, the luo han guo (Chinese: 罗汉果). The vine grows to 3 to 5 m long, climbing over other plants by means of tendrils which twine round anything they touch. The narrow, heart-shaped leaves are 10–20 cm long. The fruit is globose, 5–7 cm in diameter, and contains a sweet, fleshy, edible pulp and numerous seeds. The fruit is one of several that have been called longevity fruit.

Luo Han Guo is native to southern China, primarily grown in the southwestern China (mostly in the mountains of Guilin, Guangxi province).These mountains lend the plants shadows and often are surrounded by mists (protect the plant from the sun), which together with the warm climate in this southern province of China provide the special conditions for Luo Han Guo growing.

The fruit extract is nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar and has been used as a natural sweetener in China for nearly a millennium due to its flavor and lack of food energy, only 2.3 kcal/g (9.6 kJ/g). It has also been used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Benefits

• Functional Sweetener

• Life Extension

• Treat respiratory ailments (Wet the lungs, remove phlegm, stop chronic cough)

•Treat sore throats(acute or chronic infection of the larynx (aphonia)

• Aid defecation (such as Constipation due to old age)

• Treat sun stroke (heat stroke and thirst)

• Benefit Diabetes (use as a substitute for sugar in their nutrition)

• Antioxidant for help to prevent Cancer.

• Benefit Overweight (use as a substitute for sugar in their nutrition)

•Useful against the Epstein-Barr virus

•Inhibit ribosomal protein synthesis (by the containing of a glycoprotein called Momorgrosvin)

Mechanism

The sweet taste of luohan guo comes mainly from the mogrosides, a group of Triterpene-Glycosides that make up approximately 1% of the flesh of the fresh fruit. Through extraction, a powder containing 80% mogrosides can be obtained.

Five different mogrosides are known and they are known by names with the numbers 1 to 5(MogrosideⅠ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ). The main mogroside in this plant is mogroside-5 that was previously known as esgoside.

Other similar agents in luohan guo are Siamenoside and Neomogroside.

The pure mogroside mix present results in a sweetness that is 300 times sweeter than sugar. The 80% mix is approximately 250 times sweeter. Pure mogroside-5 and -5 can be up to 400 times as sweet.

Safety

There are no reported incidents of negative side effects of Luo Han guo that are known. It is classed by the American Food and Drug Administration as a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) product. There are no restrictions on consuming the fruit or its extracts.

Dosage

• The typical dose is of no restrictions on consuming the fruit or its extracts.
• Consult physicians for different condition specifics.

GNI’s Luo Han Guo Extract Features and Benefits:

 Luo Han Guo  is one of GNI's most competitive products, with many advantages as list in the following, produced as our patent-pending process and know-how technology from Momordica grosvenori fresh fruit.

•  Produced with pure water only

•  High purity and high sweetness: over 80% Mogrosides and over 45% Mogroside V

•  NO solvent - residual free

•  Pesticide-free

•  Crystal Light Yellow in appearance

•  High solubility in water

•  High anti-bacteria, and longer shelf life

Product Specifications:

80% Mogrosides UV,

25%, 30%, 45% Mogroside ⅤHPLC,

Concentrated Juice 60° Brix,

12:1

They are all very good powder extracts, strictly standardized, of natural Light Yellow color (from fresh fruit), preserving the natural fine scent and taste of the plant. The extracts from fresh fruit have ideal water solubility and with the least sediments and almost no suspended substance in their solvents, which are suitable for drink use.

Luo Han guois harvested in the form of a round green fruit, which becomes brown on drying. Traditionally, it is rarely used in its fresh form, as it is hard to store. Furthermore, it develops a rotten taste on fermentation, which adds to the unwanted flavors already present.Thus the fruits are usually dried before further use and are sold in precisely this fashion in Chinese herbal shops. The fruits are slowly dried in ovens, which preserves it and removes most of the unwanted aromas. However, this technique also leads to the formation of several bitter and astringent aromas. This limits the use of the dried fruits and extracts to the preparation of diluted tea, soup, and as a sweetener for products that would usually have sugar or honey added to them.

Considering all of these aspects, GNI’s Luo Han Guo Extract use as material the fresh fruit harvested the first time it matured, which makes our product contains no bitter and astringent aromas, and also through our special processing technique, we remove the unwanted aromas of the fruit itself, in a word, we reduce the interfering aromas to the least, which render it use for general application.