date:Aug 20, 2018
Intense sweetener made from monk fruit extract will soon almost certainly be legal to sell in Australia and New Zealand.
Currently monk fruit can only be used as a food and drink flavouring.
But by January it could be on supermarket shelves as a table top sweetener, an intense sweetener, made to be used as a teaspoon-for-teaspoon equivalent to white sugar.
Monk fruit extract is derived from the fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a perennial vine native to southern China. The sweet components of m