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In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, people’s dietary patterns have developed in the direction of high-fat, high-calorie and high-sugar dietary intake, which is more likely to cause chronic diseases and have adverse effects on health. At present, the intake of added sugar is increasingly concerned by the world, many countries and regions have elevated the “sugar reduction” to the level of national mandatory control. Global policy guidance has accelerated the development of the sugar-reduced food industry and the launch of new products, low-sugar, sugar-substituted foods are becoming a new trend.
Recent artificial sweeteners and functional sugar alcohols represented by aspartame and erythritol suffered from academic controversy, although there are well-known scholars online rumor, but still cause a crisis of consumer trust, during this period of luo han guo sweet glycoside is expected to go into the field of new consumer among the mainstream sugar raw materials field?
About Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside according to the “GB 1886.77-2016 National Standard for Food Safety Food Additives Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside” definition: Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside is a Luo Han Guo [Siraitiagrosvenorii (Swingle) C. Jeffrey] as raw materials, boiled and extracted, concentration, drying and other processes refined food additives, and their structural formulas Its structural formula is as follows:

Mogroside is a triterpenoid glycoside mainly from Guangxi specialty economic plant Luo Han Guo, the sweetness of which is about 300 times sweeter than that of sucrose. Mogroside has no calories, pure sweetness, no odor, strong aftertaste, good heat stability, can be used as a sweetener for food and dishes, and is an ideal sugar substitute for diabetics.
Characteristics of Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside: 1) Composition of natural Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside is refined through the extraction of Luo Han Guo, Luo Han Guo was listed as a list of medicinal and food items in 2002, according to the Pharmacopoeia has a clearing of heat and moistening of the lungs, diaphoretic open sound, laxative function.
(2) Good taste Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside has a sweetness similar to sucrose, no aftertaste, can be used alone, but also with other sweeteners to enhance the sweetness of saturation and pleasure.
(3) good stability of luo han guo sweet glycoside structure is stable, resistant to high temperature and acid and alkali, long time in 120 ℃ air heating is still not destroyed, in the PH2.0-10.0 range of stability. Applicable to a variety of process conditions product processing needs, such as tea, coffee, fermented milk, baking, etc..
Domestic and foreign regulations of Luo Han Guo sweet glucoside
Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside is a new type of sweetener, each country has a product access policy, take the United States and Europe as an example, the relevant policies are as follows:
1.Chinese policy 1) According to the “GB 1886.77-2016 National Standard for Food Safety – Food Additives Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside” stipulates the product quality requirements of Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside.
(2) According to the National Standard for Food Safety – Standard for the Use of Food Additives (GB2760-2014), Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside is included in the food additives that can be used in some food products according to the production needs in appropriate amounts.
(3) According to the provisions of the “Guilin City Plant Extract Association group standard management approach” (Gui plant extract [2019] 01), is hereby approved “Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside green production process technical method” for the Association group standard, standard number T / ZWTQ-001-2019. this standard was released on August 20, 2019, since September 20, 2019 implementation.
2.U.S. FDA1) Luo Han Guo extract can be used directly in food as a flavoring agent or adjuvant (21 CFR) 2) Luo Han Guo extract is classified as a Generally Recognized as Safe substance (GRAS certification)

Market Trends of Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycosides
In this track of natural sugar substitute, Luo Han Guo has certain resources and technical barriers compared with other sugar substitute products. From the upstream point of view, Luo Han Guo is only suitable for planting in Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other parts of the country, which is limited by the raw material planting area and climate, and the planting area is limited, which makes it difficult to expand on a large scale in a short period of time.
According to the report of Jiachen Consulting, as of the end of 2018, the domestic Luohan Guo planting area was more than 200,000 mu, the production of Luohan Guo was 1.44 billion, and the effective production capacity of Luohan Guo Glycoside was about 1,100 tons. Over the past decade, the average annual growth rate of production capacity was 15%, and the annual production capacity of the leading companies totaled between 150-300 tons. The main domestic producers include Huacheng Bio, Rhein Biotech, Gifosi and Greenmans Bio.
Huacheng Bio is currently the world’s largest domestic company specializing in the production of Luo Han Guo extract, its product specifications mainly cover V20%, V25%, V40%, V50%, V55% and V90%, of which the total production capacity of Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside V50% reaches 450 tons/year.
Gifosi is the first company in the world to invent Luo Han Guo extract with sweet glycoside content of more than 40%. The current annual production capacity of Luo Han Guo extract is more than 200 tons, and the product has obtained access licenses from 19 countries including the United States, New Zealand and Australia, with a market share accounting for half of the similar products in the international market.
The current annual production capacity of Rhein Biologicals is 250 tons/year. It is pointed out in the annual report of 2022 that, in terms of process optimization, the company has implemented and completed the technical transformation project of Luo Han Guo extraction production line with a total investment of RMB 25 million, which further enhanced the production capacity of large single product of Luo Han Guo and optimized the extraction efficiency and profit margins.
The current production capacity of Green Bio is 150 tons/year, and the product specifications mainly cover V20%, V25%, V30%, V40%, V50%, V55%, V60% and V65%, and it has already obtained the national invention patent of Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside V60%.
From the point of view of Luo Han Guo industry, although Luo Han Guo is mostly distributed in China, it was firstly researched by scientists in Japan, and then began to be applied on a large scale in the U.S. At present, the consumer market of Luo Han Guo sweet glycoside is mainly concentrated in foreign countries, especially in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and other regions, and there is a certain lag in the development of the domestic market.
According to China’s public information, the global sweetener market production is currently about 162,400 tons, China’s sweetener production is about 121,400 tons. China’s sweetener production accounts for 75% of the global sweetener production, is the largest sweetener producer. As a pure natural plant extracted sweetener, the annual output of Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside is only 1,500 tons at present, which has huge development space.
Application and case demonstration of Luo Han Guo series products
According to the statistics of Huacheng Bio, there are more than 8000 kinds of products using Luo Han Guo sweet glycosides in the global market, such as protein powder, table sugar, beverages, health care products, dietary supplements, etc. Basically, all the places that use sucrose can be used with corresponding sugar-reducing formulas made from Luo Han Guo instead of the use of sugar.
In the domestic market, there are some head enterprises use Luo Han Guo sweet glycosides instead of sucrose, such as COFCO sugar, Taikoo sugar, Pan Pan, Huiyuan, Gadobao, Miaokolando, etc., in addition to Naixue’s tea, lemon season, and other new tea drink brands have also been applied.
Nai Xue’s tea Nai Xue said, with the long-accumulated brand potential, R & D strength, supply chain and production technology and other advantages, Nai Xue took the lead in the industry to upgrade the sugar substitutes, the use of 0 sugar natural “rooibos sugar” to enhance the taste and health, and more accurately meet the consumer’s high quality of the health needs of the tea drink.

Green Titian Oolong Tea ingredients list: water, decolorized and deacidified apple juice concentrate, white grape juice concentrate (add amount ≥ 30g / L), erythritol, white bud chirimenosus (oolong tea, add amount ≥ 4g / L), Luo Han Guo juice concentrate (add amount ≥ 1.5g / L), vitamin C, D-isoascorbic acid sodium salt, citric acid, sodium citrate, food flavors.
Instead of extending the popular sugar substitute erythritol used in the sparkling water series, Yuanqi Forest Yuanqi Forest Fiber Tea series tries more natural sugar substitutes. Last year’s launch of “Qingkang Chenpi” and “Honeysuckle Luo Han Guo” both added Luo Han Guo for a natural sweetness.

Honeysuckle and Luo Han Guo Tea Ingredients List:Water, Luo Han Guo, Honeysuckle, Loquat Leaf, Dandelion, Peppermint, Pear Juice Concentrate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Maltodextrin, Flavors Kraft Heinz Kraft Heinz Updates Capri Sun Recipe, Reducing Sugar by an Average of 40 Percent Reducing the sugar content of this juice drink by an average of 40 percent by using Luo Han Guo Concentrate, with 8 grams of sugar (which includes 5 grams of added sugar) per serving. The previously unupdated formula for Capri Sun had 11 grams of added sugar.

Huacheng Bio and Ausnutria are also actively promoting the application of Luo Han Guo in food. Huacheng Biotechnology has cooperated with Ausnutria’s probiotic brand, Jinqi Biotechnology, to launch a new generation of efficacious throat lozenges “Nutrition Care Beneficial Quality Sharp Lozenges”. The lozenges are sweetened with Luo Han Guo Sweet Glycoside, which produces a sweet flavor and at the same time acts as a cough suppressant, expectorant, and a heat-clearing and lung-moisturizing agent.

NC IQS Lozenges Ingredients List: Isomaltulose Sugar Alcohol (97% added), Lactobacillus Salivarius Unidosus HKT AP-32 (inactive) (0.5% added), Lactobacillus paracasei HKT ET-66 (inactive) (0.5% added), Probiotic Fermented Powder (PEO301) (Lactobacillus salivarius Unidosus AP-32, Lactobacillus paracasei ET-66, Lactobacillus plantarum LPL28, soybean isolate protein, dextrose) (0.5% added), rosmarinic acid sweetener, vitamin C, food flavor, menthol Love GrownLove Grown Foods has introduced a ketogenic-friendly granola with maple syrup and rosmarinic acid as sweeteners, which contains 150 to 160 calories, 5 g of protein, and 4 to 6 g of carbohydrates per 1/3 cup and 4 to 6 grams of carbohydrates.

Analysis Outlook
The entry of big brands, so that the Luo Han Guo this natural sugar substitute is known to consumers, to the current application areas of compound sugar, in the field of food to natural high-fold sweeteners and natural low-fold sweeteners mixed with more and more scenarios, for example, Luo Han Guo and stevia for a good synergy can be reconciled with the taste, but also improve the cost-effective; in the case of the compounding of functional sugar alcohols, such as erythritol, it can be very good to improve the texture of the structure to Make the sweetness and sucrose more similar; in addition, with inulin and other dietary fiber compounding to protect the oral cavity, improve the taste, in line with the current trend of clean label.
When erythritol suffered a “crisis”, alloxan by regulatory restrictions, or now it is the power of Luo Han Guo moment, but I believe that with the further study of the domestic sweet glycosides of Luo Han Guo, sugar substitute for the demand for the iteration of sweet glycosides of Luo Han Guo, its excellent properties of the future or greater development potential, we look forward to the day, Luo Han Guo can be truly from abroad! We look forward to the day, Luo Han Guo can really from abroad “fragrance” to the domestic.