There’s a Chinese fruit 300x sweeter than sugar and is used to treat diabetes and obesity!

The Siraitia grosvenorii is kind of like the holy grail for people with a sweet tooth like me: It’s extremely sweet with nowhere near as bad for you as traditional cane sugar (or high fructose corn syrup).
While the FDA only approved the fruit in 2009 for consumption in the US, it has been used in China for years as a low-calorie sweeter for drinks and in traditional Chinese medicine to treat diabetes and obesity.
One thing that was blocking the use of the fruit in other applications is that it has a lot of interfering aromas. However, Procter & Gamble has patented a process for isolating just the sweeter part.