Monellin

  • UniProt: P02882

Monellin is a natural sweetener, which is found in the pulp of the moon seed crop Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii. It consists of two peptide chains with 45 and 50 amino acids, which are not covalently linked and only taste sweet together; by the sweet taste is unstable. Monellin is about 1500-2500 times as sweet as sucrose (table sugar ).

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  • Werner Baltes: Food Chemistry. 3rd edition. Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3540665250, page 182
  • Hans -Dieter Belitz, Werner Grosch, Andreas Schieberle: Textbook of Food Chemistry. 5th edition. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3540732013, pp. 428-430.
Juice vesicles
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