Beverage compositions and sweetening compositions which contain juice derived from botanical subfamily Cucurbitaceae

A sweetener composition comprising:

• (a) sweet juice derived from the botanical genus/species Siraitia grosvenorii, Siraitia siamensis, Siraitia silomaradjae, Siraitia sikkimensis, Siraitia africana, Siraitia borneensis, Siraitia taiwaniana or mixtures thereof, wherein said sweet juice contains from about 0.1% to about 5% terpene glycosides selected from mogroside V, mogroside IV, siamenoside, 11-oxo-mogroside V and mixtures thereof;
• and
• (b) sugar, selected from the group consisting of fructose, sucrose, glucose and mixtures thereof;
• and wherein the ratio of said sweet juice to sugar is from about 1:1 to about 1:5.

A sweet beverage comprising:

• (a) from about 0.002% to about 0.10% sweet terpene glycosides provided by a sweet juice from the fruit of the Cucurbitaceae family;
• (b) from about 1% to about 3% sugar;
• (c) from 0% to about 0.25% of an edible acid;
• (d) from 0 to about 0.5% edible salt and
• (e) from about 0.001% to about 60% of a flavoring system, wherein the flavoring system comprises fruit juice, fruit flavors, botanical flavors, milk or milk-type flavors or mixtures thereof.