{"id":971,"date":"2011-04-20T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-09-27T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:59:48","slug":"chinese-monk-fruit-latest-all-natural-sweetener-to-make-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Chinese monk fruit latest all-natural sweetener to make waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from The Independent<\/p>\n<p>Foods and beverages sweetened with Chinese monk fruit will be hitting US grocery store shelves within the year and could become another all-natural, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/chinese-monk-fruit-latest-allnatural-sweetener-to-make-waves-2266598.html\">zero-calorie<\/a> weapon against obesity and diabetes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-984\" title=\"monk2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/monk2-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/monk2-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/monk2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">photo credit scientistlive.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 300 times sweeter than sugar, the monk fruit &#8211; which looks like a small, green melon &#8211; is the latest all-natural sweetener to edge its way into the food and beverage market.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest player making waves currently is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/chinese-monk-fruit-latest-allnatural-sweetener-to-make-waves-2266598.html\">stevia<\/a>, a plant that&#8217;s been used in Paraguay and Brazil for hundreds of years for its sweetening and medicinal properties.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/chinese-monk-fruit-latest-allnatural-sweetener-to-make-waves-2266598.html\">full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from The Independent Foods and beverages sweetened with Chinese monk fruit will be hitting US grocery store shelves within the year and could become another all-natural, zero-calorie weapon against obesity and diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3],"tags":[186,185,132,15,131,187],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ftc-censorship","category-health-and-the-ftc","tag-all-natural-sweetener","tag-chinese-monk-fruit","tag-diabesity","tag-diabetes","tag-obesity","tag-stevia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}