The Monk Fruit
Have you ever heard of monk fruit? The name monk-fruit is funny-sounding, isn’t it? When I first heard of monk fruit a vision of an orange in a brown robe popped into my head. Turns out monk fruit is a small, greenish-colored gourd that hails from Southeast Asia and is nothing like an orange… Well, I’m getting ahead of myself here, it is like an orange in that it is sweet like an orange. It’s unlike an orange in that the sweetness it delivers can be isolated into a powder or a liquid and serve as a 0-calories option to replace sugar. How sweet is it? 150-200 times sweeter than sugar. And yes, it really has 0 calories, 0 carbohydrates,...