It's Just! - 100% Monkfruit Extract Powder, Keto Friendly Sweetener, Monk Fruit, Sugar-Free, Non-GMO, Non-Glycemic (25% Mogroside V, 1.5oz / 42g)

Finally, something that works for me! It is a big expense for a very small amount, but worth it. I can't have sugar, honey, most sweeteners, natural or artificial. They make me very sick and encourage infections/inflammation. I had resolved myself to a bland existence when I discovered 100% Monkfruit Extract Powder. It does not have the negative effects other sweeteners have had on my body. It also requires extremely small amounts to make recipes perfect. It is super sweet, but does not taste like sugar, nor does it have that near-instant addictive quality that cane sugar has. When I first tried it, I thought this was something I was going to have to 'get use to', because the taste was kind of like artificial sweetener and super sweet. As I tested its use, I began to think it was not going to work. I did not like the overwhelming taste. I read online that 1/6th teaspoon is equal to 1/4th cup sugar. Also, because I have been off sugar so long, I am very sensitive to sweet flavors. The taste had been overwhelming because I was using too much. Once I started using less, it tasted perfect! I had to teach my family that the idea is not to taste the monk fruit powder (like most people want to taste sugar). The idea is to taste the food and have the monk fruit powder there just enough to enhance the food's other flavors. An example... a strawberry is supposed to be sweet. It is difficult to get ripe strawberries these days. If the strawberry is dipped in or covered in sugar, it tastes like sugar with a hint of strawberry. However, with a slight sprinkle of monk fruit powder, the taste is a sweet strawberry.

Dejando de un lado el precio es un buen producto y sí endulza mucho más que los monk fruit "comerciales" pues es extracto del componente más dulce del fruto (mogróside V) en vez de ser todo el fruto deshidratado y pulverizado. El vendedor fue "ALDEGE", quien tardó más de 2 semanas en hacer el envío.

This stuff is STRONG and AMAZING! Long story short, I've got a toddler with a feeding disorder who isn't physically able to eat solids or take a lot of cups consistently, and still heavily relies on a bottle. She's got lots of food allergies and I do a homemade plant milk, but she was really needing more real food. This sweetener allowed me to make pureed real food that is still palatable without going crazy on the fruit or adding a ton of sugar. A small sprinkle really brings out the sweetness of the fruit and helps cover up other flavors. I used it in our morning smoothies and it was fantastic. I used maybe 1/4 of a teaspoon for an almost 40 oz smoothie. I use just a sprinkle in 12oz of thick puree. And it works wonderfully. We also plan to use it in plain yogurt to help reduce the need for added sugar. It does have a slight aftertaste when you consume it alone, so it works best in small amounts to play up existing sweetness, or reduce the need for as much other sweeteners. But it works absolutely amazingly for our little girl, and has allowed her to more easily take real food, and she's already thriving. Such a great product!

Like stevia, monk fruit extract is quirky. It is a good no-carb sweetener, but is better suited for certain purposes than a complete replacement sugar. The bag is smaller than I was expecting. The monk fruit is a powder, not a crystal. It is very fine to a fault. Every time I open the bag it releases an annoying amount of dust. The powder itself is comparable to a fine cinnamon powder. It is not easily water soluble, like cinnamon. Compared to a stevia extract I have (which is in fine crystals instead of a powder), the monk fruit does not mix well with drinks. It wants to clump and takes a lot of stirring to dissolve into the liquid. However, it does mix very well into dry foods (i.e. keto cookies). For sweetness and taste, it is similar to stevia in that it is extremely sweet forward followed by a bitter aftertaste. This is pure monk fruit, so there is no erythritol to dilute the bitterness like you get with the common monk fruit varieties in grocery stores. The bitterness is -not- a chemical flavor. Rather, it is a sour, dried fruit flavor. Think the sour part of some sweet and sour chewy candies, only much more sour (it does come from a fruit after all). For me, I don't mind the sourness and only find it noticeable in large amounts or when it's mixed in with something that doesn't have a strong flavor. You can mix your own erythritol if you want to cut the bitterness down, but the lack of erythritol is the whole point for me. For uses, I really tried to make this work for coffee and tea. But the powder's low solubility just doesn't make it practical. My stevia extract dissolves perfectly in liquid, so it's just not worth it to spend the time necessary to make the monk fruit powder fully dissolve. For baking and cooking though, this powder is a solid winner. I used this to make a keto ice cream and was wholly impressed. It says the comparison to regular sugar is 1/32, but taste is relative. I used about a tablespoon to replace 3/4-1 cup of regular sugar in the ice cream. The ice cream tastes wonderful, and perhaps a bit too sweet (I would use a bit less next time). More importantly, the sour aftertaste is not noticeable at all. I'm planning a keto cheese cake next for this monk fruit and have no doubts to how well it will perform. I plan to buy this again, but for limited uses like baking and cooking. It's not worth it as an every day sweetener for drinks.

I have been using the Splenda Monk fruit with erythritol but wanted to try this pure monk fruit. I've been trying to lose some weight and wanted a safe alternative to sugar (I hate artificial sweeteners.) I should have paid more attention to some of the negative reviews but didn't. I wanted to like it - I really did. I got a 1/8 teaspoon and filled it halfway (which, at 1/32 = 1 tsp., 1/16 - half of a 1/8 = 2 tsps.) This stuff is nasty tasting...literally has an aftertaste of artificial sweetener. I thought maybe I got it too strong, so I tried less...did not help. I finally started adding some of the erythritol monk fruit to mix with it. But that literally voids the whole purpose of using the pure monk fruit. I also want to add that this is not a white powder. I saw in one of the reviews, a woman mentions this fact. I didn't think much of it but perhaps that's the problem - I really don't know. I just cannot stomach the aftertaste it leaves in my mouth... a lot of money wasted on a nasty product. Lastly, when I ordered, I double checked that I could replace or refund this before I ordered it. However, when I tried, I received a quick message stating that this product IS NOT REFUNDABLE OR RETURNABLE!