As a non-nutritive sweetener and flavor enhancer, it can be used 1n flavors, foods, beverages, gums, baked foods, dietary supplements, powdered drinks, nutritional bars, chocolates, and so on.

Luo Han Guo (Siraitia grosvenorii, or Momordica grosvenorii), that is mangosteen of cucurbitaceous family the ripe fruit of a kind of perennial grass liana. There have been thousands of years that Chinese have known to soak the Luo Han Guo in water as a drink.

Traditional of Chinese medicine as well applies it to cure disease, such as high blood pressure, pulmonary tuberculosis, asthma, gastritis, whooping cough, acute and chronic tracheitis and acute and chronic tonsillitis, etc. It is proved by recent researches that mogrosides is the main effective medical components. Luo Han Guo fruit and its extract are dual-use in the rapeutic and health products.

At present, Luo Han Guo is allowed to be used as a food additive in many countries: Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Britain, and China, etc.