Ready to cut down on sugar?
#1 Best Seller on Amazon UKA natural monk fruit sweetener for coffee, breakfast and baking. No erythritol, so none of the cooling sensation those blends are known for, and 2 kcal a serving.
What is inside: 70% soluble tapioca fibre, 30% monk fruit decoction. We print the full proportions because you should know exactly what you are buying.
What Zilch actually is
Zilch is made from the whole monk fruit rather than a purified extract of it, with soluble tapioca fibre as the only other ingredient. Two things in the pouch. Here is what that changes day to day.
It dissolves cleanly into hot and cold drinks, and there is no cooling sensation, which is the thing erythritol blends are known for.
You cut the sugar without giving up the sweetness. It is around 3 times sweeter than sugar, so you use noticeably less.
Porridge, yoghurt, smoothies, dressings and baking, wherever it is sweetness you want rather than sugar's bulk.
Gluten Free
Vegan Friendly
Nut Free
Keto Friendly
Gut Friendly
All NaturalWhat it tastes like, what is in it
Two ingredients. No erythritol, no sugar alcohols, no artificial additives.
In their words
Real reviews from Amazon UK buyers. We have not tidied them up.
Absolutely the best sweetener available, blown away by the taste, I used to use a stevia and erythritol blend before, which caused some tummy issues after, but this had no such effect
Fantastic product. First time using this in anything other than tea / coffee. I baked a cake and it tasted amazing. Really sweet which can be tasted through out the sponge. I will absolutely be purchasing again. Highly recommend.
Does the job, no weird after taste for me personally, as some have mentioned. Using it in baking and cooking in general. Works well as a sugar substitute.
Where it earns its place
Zilch is not a cup-for-cup baking sugar, and we would rather say so here than have you find out with a flat sponge. It does not caramelise, and it does not add bulk the way sugar or erythritol do.
Tomorrow morning, make your usual cup and sweeten it with Zilch instead. One cup will tell you more than any page can. A pouch is £9.99 with free UK delivery.
Probably not, because most of what is on the shelf is erythritol-based. The cooling effect people associate with "natural sweetener" comes from the sugar alcohol, not the monk fruit, and there is none of it here. The finish is a matter of taste, and our reviews are genuinely split on it.
It is around 3 times sweeter than sugar, so start with noticeably less than you would use of sugar and sweeten to taste. A pouch lasts most people around three months of daily hot drinks.
Because monk fruit is a fruit that has to be grown and harvested, and there is a lot more of it in here than in a blend that is mostly bulking agent. Compare it per cup rather than per pouch: around 123 servings works out at about 8p a serving.
A serving is 2 kcal and 0.2g of sugar, with no added sugar and a little prebiotic fibre. The fruit does contain naturally occurring sugars, which is why we quote the figures per serving rather than calling it sugar-free. At the amount you actually use, the impact is very small.
Two ingredients: monk fruit infusion powder and soluble tapioca fibre. The infusion is a gentle steep of the whole fruit in water, known technically as a decoction, and the fibre is the carrier that gives the powder usable volume. No erythritol, no allulose, no artificial sweeteners. It is not a pure or purified extract, and we are careful not to claim otherwise.
No. We deliberately leave out erythritol, which Cleveland Clinic research has linked to increased cardiovascular risk, and allulose, which is not currently authorised for sale in the UK or EU. Soluble tapioca fibre does the job instead, without the cooling effect or the digestive complaints.
Both are natural sweeteners with negligible calories per serving. Many people prefer monk fruit because stevia can carry a bitter, slightly liquorice-like finish, where monk fruit tends to be smoother and more rounded. Taste is personal, so that is a preference rather than a verdict.
Zilch Foods, a UK company based in Edinburgh, trading since October 2025. You will also find us in Holland & Barrett, on Amazon UK, at WellEasy and in a growing number of independent health food shops.
Keith & Gemma, founders
"I couldn't find an alternative that didn't taste like compromise, so we made one."
We wanted to cut down on sugar, and everything we tried came with a catch: a bitter finish, a cooling aftertaste, or an ingredients list that read like a chemistry exam. So we made the one we wanted to use ourselves, with two ingredients and the full 70/30 proportions printed on the pack.
Zilch is run by the two of us from Edinburgh, in the UK.
Whole-fruit monk fruit infusion. No erythritol, no sugar alcohols, no artificial additives. Free UK delivery.
Zilch is made by a small team in Edinburgh. Every order genuinely matters to us.
Zilch Foods LTD, 53A Manor Place, Edinburgh, EH3 7EG. Company number SC838128.
