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

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.

I can't find pure monk fruit powder in my local grocery stores--they only carry brands that are mixed with erythritol. Since a recent study found erythritol to be linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke, I have quit using it. So far, there have been no dangers to health associated with monk fruit. The chief difficulty is knowing how much to use since it is so much sweeter than sugar. This is explained on the package, and a tiny measuring spoon that is the equivalent to a teaspoon of sugar is helpfully provided. I have not tried baking with monk fruit yet, but I find it wonderful in cereal and smoothies. To me, it tastes better than Stevia. Some people complain that it's messy to use, which is true unless you carefully transfer the powder from its package to a container with a wide, secure lid. I also store its plastic spoon separately. As for complaints about it being expensive, I don't find that the case given how little one uses per serving.

I have not tried other allegedly pure monkfruit extract products, but I notice that other such products are said to include a small scoop, and reviewers are talking about much larger amounts being equivalent to one teaspoon of sugar, so I wonder why that is. THIS product - It's Just - 100% Monkfruit Extract Powder, Keto Friendly Sweetener, Monk Fruit, Sugar-Free... - is SO EXTREMELY CONCENTRATED and sweet that if you were to even THINK about using quarter of a teaspoon of it in your coffee, you would find it unbearably sweet. I literally use just a pinhead amount to sweeten coffee like 2 teaspoons of sugar would - and I am not talking about those pins with the big spherical coloured plastic heads, I am talking standard pins! I use a sharp pointed knife and just take a pinhead speck on the point of the knife to sweeten coffee. I took a photo of a standard teaspoon with a tiny pile of this extract (so small I needed to add an arrow to show you where it is on the spoon!). That is the amount for a LARGE cup of coffee for someone with a sweet tooth. This stuff is so powerful a sweetener that if you get it on your hands even in amounts you don't notice, and then, say, eat a piece of lettuce (picking it up using your hand that has the not-noticeable amount of this sweetener on it), the lettuce will taste sweet! I keep the bag in a sturdy freezer bag to try to avoid the sweetness getting everywhere. The other fabulous thing about this sweetener is that it is not cooling (like erythritol - no weird peppermint sensation), and is not bitter (like I find Stevia), and has none of the horrible aftertaste of several other sweeteners.

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!

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.