The Fruits of Siraitia grosvenorii: A Review of a Chinese Food-Medicine

• Main Authors: Xue Gong (Author), Namuhan Chen (Author), Kai Ren (Author), Junying Jia (Author), Kunhua Wei (Author), Le Zhang (Author), Ying Lv (Author), Jianhua Wang (Author), Minhui Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Siraitia grosvenorii (Swingle) C. Jeffrey, a member of the family Cucurbitaceae, is a unique economic and medicinal plant grown in China. For more than 300 years, S. grosvenorii has been used as a natural sweetener and as a traditional medicine for the treatment of pharyngitis, pharyngeal pain, as w...