Leadership & Innovation
COMPANY MILESTONES
Monk Fruit Corp. has been at the forefront of the development of the monk fruit industry and has been responsible for introducing many significant innovations and milestones in agronomy, processing, and regulatory approvals including:
- The first company to commercialize tissue culture technology for monk fruit seedlings. Our seedling cultivation technology has been key to the development of our large-scale monk fruit supply chain while our high quality seedlings reduce risk and increase incomes for farmers.
- The first company to register plant variety rights for new superior varieties of monk fruit.
- The first company to develop technology for spray pollination of monk fruit which has significantly reduced labor costs and increased fruit yield for farmers.
- The first company to develop large-scale monk fruit orchards.
- The first company to pioneer the use of environmentally-friendly orchard technology such as drip irrigation for reducing water and fertilizer use.
- The first company to invent and commercialize a process for making monk fruit extract with at least 50% purity.
- The first company to have patents granted for commercial monk fruit extract.
- The first company to attain US FDA approval for monk fruit extract for use as a sweetener.
- The first company to invent a process for making clean-tasting, stable monk fruit juice and monk fruit infusion products.
- The first company to attain Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) accreditation for monk fruit processing.
- Establishing the world’s largest contracted grower network for monk fruit.
- The first company to gain regulatory approval for monk fruit juice concentrate products in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.
- The first company to gain regulatory approval for concentrated monk fruit infusion in the UK and EU.
Monk Fruit Corp is the only company in the world which is focused solely on monk fruit and is regarded as the world’s leading monk fruit company. It has earned this title through more than a decade dedicated to innovation, focus and leadership in the monk fruit industry.
Awards
Monk Fruit Corp. has received more than 20 regional and national awards for our pioneering work with monk fruit. These awards include:
- Outstanding Entrepreneurship
- Improvement of Rural Conditions through the Application of Science
- Alleviation of Rural Poverty (“Dragonhead Award”)
- Clean Production and Environmental Protection
- Leading Agricultural Enterprise of Guangxi Province (“Dragonhead Award”)
- Leading Export Brand of Guangxi Province
