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Intense sweetener from Lo Han Kuo (Momordica grosvenori)

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Die getrockneten Früchte, Lo Han Kuo, vonMomordica grosvenori Swingle, enthalten einen Süss-Stoff, der mit Hilfe von Dünnschicht-Chromatographie abgesondert wurde.

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  6. Male albino mice (Charles River Laboratory) weighing 19–24 g were dosed orally with aqueous solutions of the lyophilized extracts at a volume of 0.3 ml/10 g body weight and were kept for observation for 1 week. A very crude extract (without any processing) as well as the Sephadex G-25 treated extract were tested with 10 animals per group. None of the mice died. At a dose of 15 g crude extract per kg mice, the animals exhibited a mild sedation and some diarrhea; however, these effects were transient as all animals appeared normal within 30–60 min. I thankP. Holmes andA. Pritchard for these results.

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Lee, CH. Intense sweetener from Lo Han Kuo (Momordica grosvenori). Experientia 31, 533–534 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01932442

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