- Try Lakanto®, the all-purpose, all-natural sweetener!
- With zero calories and zero glycemic index, this one-to-one sugar replacement looks, smells and tastes delicious!
- Lakanto® can be used like sugar in your favorite recipes, snacks and drinks.
- Voted as superior-tasting sugar-free sweetener by American Masters of Taste
- All-natural and All-purpose
Lakanto® Classic is a zero-calorie sugar substitute that tastes and cooks like sugar, but with one big difference: its zero calories and zero glycemic index won’t affect your blood sugar levels.
Lakanto® Classic can be used just like regular sugar – it adds clean sweetness to coffee or tea, baked goods, fruit salads and much more!
This latest addition to the Lakanto® family is great for cooking as it does not alter the taste or color of your food.
New Lakanto® ClassicThanks to an extra-pure Monk Fruit extract made from early-harvest fruit, Lakanto® Classic has a clean and transparent sweetness with no aftertaste. The crisp flavor and texture are so close to real sugar – you’ll be amazed! Unlike bland, powdery sweeteners, Lakanto® resembles natural sugar and has no aftertaste.
Lakanto® Classic is made from natural ingredients and contains no colors, preservatives or additives of any kind.
100% Natural, Vegan IngredientsLakanto® Classic is a proprietary blend of two special ingredients, Erythritol and Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo). Erythritol is a sugar alcohol produced through the fermentation of non-GMO certified corn. It exists in many foods such as grapes, mushrooms, cheese, wine and beer.
The other ingredient – high purity Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo) extract – is what makes Lakanto® Classic so unique. Grown mainly around Guilin Mountains in southern China, this prized fruit has been used for thousands of years, earning it the nickname, “The Longevity Fruit.”
Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo) is often used as a sweetener on its own, but it is impractical due to its intense sweetness and strong taste.
In 1996, using a patented process, SARAYA became the first and only company to successfully integrate Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo) into a tabletop sweetener, creating a delicious one-of-a-kind product as sweet as sugar. Lakanto® also lacks the bitterness often associated with Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo)-based sweeteners.
Lakanto® Classic goes the extra step, using a higher-purity extract from early-harvest Monk Fruit to achieve a clean, sugar-like taste.
Sugar-free Cooking Made EasySince Lakanto® has been formulated to match the sweetness of sugar as closely as possible, you don’t have to change your recipes. It’s easy to measure and replaces sugar one-to-one.
Lakanto® does not absorb moisture, even with high heat and humidity so it won’t harden with age.
Safe for the Whole FamilyEvery member of the family can enjoy Lakanto’s® great taste without worrying about calories.
A Revolutionary SweetenerLakanto® Classic brings you everything you need from a sugar replacement – zero calories, zero glycemic index, same sweetness and taste as sugar and wide range of use and delicious flavor.
The Lakanto Story
Lakanto® is made by Saraya Co., Ltd, a Japan-based international health and environmental company. In 1995, Saraya Co. formulators struck gold, almost literally! They developed a golden-brown natural sweetener by adding a high purity extract of the Chinese fruit Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo) to erythritol, a sugar alcohol made of fermented glucose.
The resulting sweetener had absolutely zero calories and a glycemic index of zero. It closely matched the sweetness profile of table sugar and could be used in cooking, baking, coffee and tea. Best of all, it contained no additives and tasted great!
They called this sweetener Lakanto®, Japanese for “sweet fruit.” Over the next decade, it became the #1 selling natural sugar substitute in Japan. Fourteen years later, it is still going strong and remains the only sweetener that combines Monk Fruit (Luo Han Guo) extract and erythritol.
It all began in the 1950s, when company founder Mr. Shota Saraya began producing soaps and dispensers to help improve sanitation in postwar Japan. The company grew, and today Saraya Co., Ltd. now provides cleaning and sanitation solutions to thousands of households, businesses, kitchens and hospitals.
Saraya has a truly green history and started providing biodegradable and non-toxic products long before “eco-friendly” and “green” became buzzwords.
Do you find it odd that a company specializing in handwashing, medical disinfection and sanitation equipment also produces the world’s most delicious all natural zero calorie sweetener?
Perhaps Mr. Saraya’s R&D team would have thought so too, when in the early 1990s their boss suddenly asked them to develop a natural sweetener! A diabetic, Mr. Saraya was frustrated that there wasn’t a zero calorie sweetener on the market that was easy to use and didn’t contain artificial ingredients.
First, the Saraya team developed a sweetener based on licorice root. It was low calorie and low glycemic index, but it was not acceptable because it was not as useful as sugar and had a strong taste. “Back to the drawing board,” said Mr. Saraya. This lead to the breakthrough in 1995, which produced the natural sweetener, Lakanto®.