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

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.

PARENTS: STOP FEEDING YOUR CHILDREN SUGAR, which is addictive and truly poison--it destroys teeth, skin, vision, hair; it can cause you to lose limbs; it can elevate blood pressure and blood sugar levels; it can negatively impact mental health; and, obviously, it can cause excessive weight gain. There's NO good reason to eat sugar (no one HAS to eat foods that include sugar as an ingredient). Artificial sweeteners are a poor substitute as far as health is concerned. Natural sweeteners like stevia, allulose and monk fruit blends, while better for you, don't taste great. But this PURE monk fruit powder is a game changer! It's Only Monk Fruit doesn't have sugar alcohol added, so you don't have the bitter aftertaste typical with other natural sweeteners. The little scoop included measures 1/32 of a teaspoon (equal to 2 tsp of sugar), and that small amount is adequate. When mixed with food or drink, you get a very clean, subtly sweet taste, i.e., the sweetness is there without being cloying; it definitely satisfies a sugar craving! After reading the reviews before purchase, I tried to be careful transferring it to a jar, but still managed to spill about a tsp full of the powder! I thoroughly tamped down the bag before carefully opening it and I didn't get a plume, but I DID taste the sweetness in my throat! The powder is extremely fine and it's easily inhaled; be careful. The small package contains 300 servings, so I think the price is fair. I love this sugar sub and wish I'd discovered it long ago. I'll never eat sugar again.

I've done a bit of research on monk fruit and it's extract. It is supposed to be (the extract) VERY sweet. The reviews say you only need a very little amount and that you have to be careful otherwise you can easily over sweeten. I've used it in my coffee and tea. I was disappointed that I had to use three of the scoops (included) to even taste the sweetener in my coffee. It also has a bitter after taste (hard to define). In my tea, the after taste was even more pronounced. The more sweetener I put in, the more pronounced the after taste. It was strange because I did not detect more sweet taste, it was the after taste that increased not the sweetness. I am not sure what to do with this sweetener because I don't like it. It's not refundable. I would skip this if you are looking for a good sweetener. This does not appear to be a good an extract . It is true that the package is small. You have to tamp the package down BEFORE you open it. I tamped down the package, let it settle for an hour BEFORE I opened the package. The powder does get into the air easily. You will end up with the product all over your kitchen if you are not careful. I transferred mine to a glass jar and that seems to control the powder better.

We went on this monk fruit after I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and my husband was diagnosed as per-diabetic. it has been a life saver when we are desperate for something sweeter to the taste. I have to say that it took some experimenting with different foods though. By experimenting we found out that we like flavor acidic sauces, fruits, berries and tomato sauces such as spaghetti with Plain Sweet leaf Stevia drops after it is done cooking without any bad 'Stevia aftertaste' but in baked goods the sweetness gets baked out . So we found that we must use the monk fruit for anything that requires the sweetener already in it as in baked goods etc. To use this monk fruit you want to first re hydrate the amount you are going to use in a small amount of hot water and stir enough to re hydrate so it is not clumping. Then you can pour that into what ever needs sweetened. We found out the hard way that if you don't do this then the monk fruit will clump into a ball if you add it straight into a boiling pan and we could never get the clump to dissipate into the food after that. We tried Lakanto Monk fruit but I had a serious reaction to some other ingredients they mix into the monk fruit to make it act like sugar. So we purchased this one which is just straight dehydrated monk fruit. To honest, it has it's own unique taste that takes some getting used to and will not be a direct substitute for sugar. It does not caramelize as sugar does when it is heated but it is stable when it is heated and the sweetness does not disappear when baked like liquid Stevia does. I have had other brands of monk fruit and some are quite dark, with almost a molasses flavor and seem to dissolve better...but this one is light colored and does not seem to have that molasses type flavor. It took some testing and learning but now I like it a lot. Just know that it comes in a very small bag. This surprised me at first but I soon learned that a little of this monk fruit goes a long way and even with all of our 'testing' that bag lasted a very long time for us. For someone who can not have sugar or other sweeteners such as Xylitol this will definitely help. I will definitely order this again.

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.