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Monk Fruit sweetener

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Has anyone seen Monk Fruit Sweetener in the UK please? It is big in Australia and I have bought a pack of it. Its more expensive than others but apparently great for baking with.I got some non grain flours too to keep the carbs down this Christmas.
 
Never managed to find it for sale in the U.K.
I tend to use Brown Shuga or similar for baking and it usually works fine.
 
A quick Google suggests it's available on eBay. Not clicked through to find out who the people selling on eBay seem to be
 
It seems that monk fruit isn’t approved as a food item in the U.K. so it’s not available as a sweetener.
It is however available when it’s included in a prebaked item.

That explains why when you click on any eBay ad or Amazon listing for monk fruit you invariably get taken to an erythritol sweetener instead.
 
ColinUK said:
It seems that monk fruit isn’t approved as a food item in the U.K. so it’s not available as a sweetener.
It is however available when it’s included in a prebaked item.

That explains why when you click on any eBay ad or Amazon listing for monk fruit you invariably get taken to an erythritol sweetener instead.
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I believe Monk fruit us a type of erythritol sweetener . I have not heard of brown Shuga need to look it up when I get back.
 
ColinUK said:
It seems that monk fruit isn’t approved as a food item in the U.K. so it’s not available as a sweetener.
It is however available when it’s included in a prebaked item.

That explains why when you click on any eBay ad or Amazon listing for monk fruit you invariably get taken to an erythritol sweetener instead.
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Not invariably. This seller appears to have monk fruit sweetener
 
42istheanswer said:
Not invariably. This seller appears to have monk fruit sweetener
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Yes but when you read the ingredients, the first listed is Erythritol, followed by monk fruit and no indication of the percentage of each, but I would imagine it will be largely erythritol since it is listed first and just a small amount of monk fruit.... so basically a con.
 
rebrascora said:
Yes but when you read the ingredients, the first listed is Erythritol, followed by monk fruit and no indication of the percentage of each, but I would imagine it will be largely erythritol since it is listed first and just a small amount of monk fruit.... so basically a con.
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Ah. I did find a place online in UK selling whole monk fruit but I assume it would need quite a bit of processing :rofl:
 
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