Technical Information

Understanding Sweetness from Monk Fruit:

BioVittoria standardises Fruit-Sweetness™ in terms of the Mogroside V content only, which we measure using HPLC. This is because sweetness potency is directly proportional to Mogroside V concentration, (a generally accepted fact but one which we have had confirmed by an independent sensory testing service using an extremely detailed and accurate methodology) and because mogroside V is the only mogroside for which an analytical standard is readily available.

The “total” mogroside value used by other monk fruit product suppliers is inaccurate and misleading. This is due to the fact that the UV/VIS method employed can not distinguish between mogrosides and other non-mogroside components such as melanoidins and flavonoids.