Technical presentations at Prepared Foods’ R&D Applications Seminars showcased information on sugar alcohols, natural sweetening ingredients and beneficial flavorings for enhanced sweetness perception.

Americans downed nearly a quarter less added sugar in 2008 than they did nine years earlier, a new report concludes.

University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated that sugar does not melt, it decomposes.

Natural sweeteners derived from the stevia plant could be authorized for EU-wide use by the end of the year, after governments approved their sale in certain foodstuffs, the European Union's executive said on Tuesday.

Five more individual sugar companies and two trade associations have joined a lawsuit to stop the corn processors from marketing high-fructose corn syrup as a "natural" product equivalent to real sugar.

Sunwin International Neutraceuticals Inc., Domino Foods Inc. and WILD Flavors GmbH have entered into an collaboration agreement to support the food and beverage industry by offering all-natural sweeteners made from all-natural products such as cane sugar, rice, malt and stevia.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved an application to increase the maximum permitted levels of a high-intensity sweetener and an application to use a genetically modified soybean in food and notified the approvals to the Ministerial Council.

A group of sugar farmers and refiners are suing corn processors for their attempt to rebrand high-fructose corn syrup as "corn sugar."

Senomyx Inc. has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,928,111 covering foods and beverages containing S2383, an enhancer of the sweetener sucralose.