Omega Ingredients Launches Monk Fruit Juice Concentrate

The juice concentrate is extracted from the small melon-like fruit, which grows mainly in South China and has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese herbal medicine as a key ingredient for treating sore throats and coughs.

Sep 17 2010 --- Omega Ingredients Ltd, the award winning UK business that creates and manufactures flavours, fragrances and ingredients for commercial use, has hit the global marketplace with another pioneering product launch, a Juice Concentrate of Luo han guo (known as “Monk Fruit”).

Steve Pearce, MD of Omega Ingredients Ltd, said “Juice Concentrate of Monk Fruit is going to become a very useful flavour enhancement ingredient in cereal, chocolate, beverage and savoury foods applications. Its intense sweetening properties make Monk Fruit a natural alternative to mainstream sweeteners, such as aspartame, saccharine and sugar.”

This juice concentrate can be used and declared as a fruit juice. It has very good synergistic properties when used with other sweeteners (eg. a slow taste onset of the sweetness effect followed by a long tail off), with the overall effect of reducing a product’s sugar levels and making the ingredients more attractive to health conscious consumers. It also masks the bitterness and aftertaste of other ingredients including preservatives.

The juice concentrate is extracted from the small melon-like fruit, which grows mainly in South China and has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese herbal medicine as a key ingredient for treating sore throats and coughs.