Funny name, pretty cool fruit {Monk Fruit in the Raw Review}

December 10, 2014 Kristin, Exploring Domesticity

There are so many sweeteners out there these days! The best, of course, are all-natural and it’s really interesting to see what is coming out these days!

Have you heard of Monk Fruit?

Sounds ridiculous so, of course, I was so happy to give it a try for Moms Meet!

New-to-me Fun Facts about Monk Fruit from Monk Fruit In The Raw

Monk Fruit In The Raw is a wholesome, zero-calorie sweetener made from real monk fruit, a vine-ripened fruit that is native to Asia.
Monk fruit, known as luo han guo in Asia, was first harvested in the 13th century by Arhats, or “Enlightened Ones,” which translates to Monks in English.
The sweet and delicious extract from monk fruit is blended with other sweeteners to create the perfect balance of sweet.
Monk Fruit In The Raw is naturally vegan, kosher, and gluten-free, and does not contain any added table sugar, sugar alcohols, or molasses.
Conscious, rejoice! Monk Fruit In The Raw has the closest taste to sugar of any non-caloric sweetener, and has the least amount of aftertaste.
One pack of Monk Fruit In The Raw is about as sweet as two teaspoons of sugar.

The kiddos and I happily gave our Monk Fruit In The Raw the ultimate test and made some 4-ingredient peanut butter cookies.

If you haven’t made them before the reason they are the ultimate test is that they consist of sugar – or an alternative sweetener – peanut butter, an egg, and vanilla. The sweetener better be good to hold up that cookie! Monk Fruit In The Raw suggests replacing half of a recipe’s sugar with Monk Fruit In The Raw, but we just went for it!

The cookies ended up tasting pretty good!

There was a bit of a different taste than sugar, obviously, but the kiddos loved it and I will gladly experiment some more with Monk Fruit In The Raw!