【Product Name】:Luohan Guo Extract

【Botanical Name】: Momordica grosvenori Swingle

【Part used】: Fruit

【Appearance】: Light Yellow or White to Off-White powder

【Specification】: 4：1  10：1 / Juice Powder / Mogrosides 10-95%/ Mogroside V 10%-60%

【Storage Period】: 24 Months

【Package】: 1kg/bag 25kg/drum

【Test Method】: HPLC

【Storage Conditions】: Store in cool and dry places. Keep away from strong light and heat.

Description

Monk Fruit vine attains a length of 3–5 m, climbing over other plants by means of tendrils which twine around anything they touch. The narrow, heart-shaped leaves are 10–20 cm long. The fruit is round, 5–7 cm in diameter, smooth, yellow-brownish, or green-brownish in color, containing striations from the fruit stem end of the furrows with a hard but thin skin covered by fine hairs. The inside of the fruit contains an edible pulp, which, when dried, forms a thin, light brown, brittle shell about 1 mm in thickness. The seeds are elongated and almost spherical.

Chemical Composition

It mainly contains mogroside IV, mogroside V, mogroside VII, the glycoside is 300 times sweeter than sucrose, and the aglycone is a cucurbitacin compound. It also contains more than ten kinds of amino acids, flavonoids, mogroside-3,24-di-oxy-β-glucoside, D-mannitol, mogroside glycol benzoate, kaempferol and a large amount of fructose. Kernels contain oil, and their fatty acids include capric acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, and linoleic acid.