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Cargill: Non-GMO Sourcing

Cargill strengthens North American non-GMO offering with Identity Preservation process, more Non-GMO Project Verified ingredients

March 31, 2017

Furthering its commitment to help food and beverage customers address growing consumer demand for non-GMO product offerings, Cargill has announced an identity preservation process and several additional Non-GMO Project Verified food ingredients.

ADM Adds European Sweetener and Starch Facility

Chamtor, a French facility, is well-positioned to serve key markets in Western Europe

March 28, 2017

Archer Daniels Midland Company announced that it has been granted exclusivity in relation to the proposed purchase of Chamtor, a French producer of wheat-based sweeteners and starches.

Sweeteners Round-up

Technologists are addressing the national sweet tooth with an expanding menu of sweeteners

Marc Green

March 23, 2017

The sweetener industry continues to evolve more by consumption than invention. Just as sugar was transformed from a luxury item to a standard on the American table, and then made huge inroads into processed foods, new high-intensity sweeteners are carving out solid ground in the sweetener tool chest.

Jungbunzlauer: Non-GMO Certified

Jungbunzlauer obtains “NSF Non-GMO True North” certification

March 8, 2017

Demand for certified Non-GMO food is steadily increasing as more consumers seek reliability about the origin of their daily food and the technologies used to make it.

SweeGen: High Purity Stevia Sweetener

SweeGen announces successful commercialization of Bestevia™ Reb-M

February 27, 2017

Customer feedback on the product has been exceptional, which includes a major global beverage company that recently used SweeGen’s Bestevia™ Reb-M in its large-scale trial for one of its bottled beverages.

BENEO: Sugar-free Solutions

BENEO presents innovative sugar-free hard candy concepts at ISM 2017

February 6, 2017

BENEO used the ISM 2017 exhibition in Cologne, Germany, to showcase a new Sweets Collection including its latest innovations in sugar-free hard candies.

Prinova: Reduce Sugar

Prinova helps product developers take sugar reduction to the next level

February 1, 2017

Food and beverages manufacturers are under pressure to reduce product sugar content. And it’s no surprise, considering the World Health Organization’s endorsement of soft drink “sugar taxes” and FDA’s new Nutrition Facts labeling guidelines, which require product packaging to list all added sugars.

Sweeteners help snack and bakery manufacturers offer better-for-you products

Strategies for sweetener use factor in several variables, including 'added sugars,' better-for-you positioning, flavor, and natural and clean-label requirements.

Maxine Weber

January 16, 2017

We often equate January with the start of diet season. The past two months of overindulging are now behind us, and it’s time to be responsible eaters again.

Tate & Lyle Celebrates 40 Years of Sucralose

SPLENDA® Sucralose, the ingredient brand name for Tate & Lyle’s sucralose, is a no-calorie, high quality sweetener which is approximately 600 times sweeter than sugar

December 21, 2016

It has also been 16 years since Tate & Lyle’s sucralose production facility in McIntosh, Alabama, US, the world’s first commercial-scale sucralose production facility, began production in December 2000.

Extend Nutrition Yogurt & Berry bars that helps control blood glucose

2017 Ingredients for Health Guide: Diabetes & Blood Glucose Control

The leading sub-categories in 2015 with a diabetic positioning were sugar & sweeteners, accounting for 15% of product launches

December 19, 2016

There has been increasing focus on new product development in the sugar free, no added sugar and low sugar space, in order to garner interest from the wider demographic of health conscious consumers—not just diabetics or the obese.