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Whole Earth Brands, Inc. to Acquire Wholesome Sweeteners

The initial purchase price for the transaction is $180 million in cash
December 18, 2020
Whole Earth Brands, Inc., a global food company enabling healthier lifestyles by providing access to premium plant-based sweeteners, flavor enhancers and other foods through a diverse portfolio of trusted brands and delicious products, announced that it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of WSO Investments, Inc., the holding company for Wholesome Sweeteners Incorporated, an organic sweetener brand in North America.
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Purecane Wins 2020 Popular Science Best of What's New Award

Product recognized as one of the "100 greatest innovations of 2020"
December 8, 2020
PurecaneTM a pioneering clean sweetener from Amyris, Inc., a global science and technology leader of pure, sustainable ingredients for the Health & Wellness, Clean Beauty and Flavors & Fragrances markets, announces it is a recipient of a 2020 Popular Science "Best of What's New Award" in the Engineering category.
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Malt Products: Oat Milk

Malt Products’ oat extract sweetener grows with surging oat milk demand
December 1, 2020
Malt Products Corporation (MPC), a manufacturer of malted barley extract and other natural, nutritious sweeteners, has recently experienced a surge in demand for its OatRite™ oat extract as an attractive sweetener for the burgeoning oat milk market. 
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Tate & Lyle Acquires Sweet Green Fields

Company's position as a leading global provider of sugar reduction and clean label solutions strengthened by acquisition of stevia sweetener solutions business
December 1, 2020
Tate & Lyle PLC, a leading global provider of food and beverage ingredients and solutions, announced the acquisition of Sweet Green Fields (SGF), a leading global stevia solutions business.
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2021 Predictions: SWEETENERS

Sweeter Times Coming

The search for sweetness is only natural.
Alexa Bosshardt
Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN
November 30, 2020

Consumer commitment to reduce sugar consumption continues to drive industry opportunities to develop non-nutritive sweeteners that perform and taste like table sugar. Blending nutritive sweeteners with high-intensity sweeteners (HIS) has become the standard, with stevia being the common go-to, typically in blends with everything from corn-derived sucrose or dextrose to maltose or tapioca sugar, or recent arrivals like coconut sugar.


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Honey Ranks as the Preferred American Sweetener

In 2020 consumer survey, honey surpasses white sugar for the first time
November 19, 2020
The National Honey Board Consumer Attitudes & Usage Study 2020 asked consumers to choose their favorite sweetener from several common ones, including white sugar, brown sugar, several non-calorie sweeteners, raw sugar, monkfruit, and maple syrup. Honey came out on top for the first time.
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Lantic, DouxMatok to Offer Cane-based Sugar Reduction Solution

Lantic and DouxMatok have worked together to transition the innovation from pilot testing to successful commercial scale manufacturing
October 28, 2020
DouxMatok’s solution is based on real cane sugar and, therefore, has the same sensorial profile, taste and other functionalities as sugar.
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SweeGen: Natural Sweetening

SweeGen commercializes new Bestevia Reb I
October 28, 2020
As clean-label zero-calorie natural sweeteners continue to be attractive to consumers, SweeGen announced the expansion of its natural sweetener portfolio with the commercial production of Bestevia® Reb I, a next generation high-purity stevia sweetener and flavor unique to SweeGen. 
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National Honey Board Announces Queen’s Choice Awards Winners

Winning brands included Pepperidge Farm, Simple Mills, Godiva, Teakoe and Green Bee
September 10, 2020
The National Honey Board’s annual Queen’s Choice Awards results are in, and brands small and large took home honors as the best food and beverage products made with honey in the last year. Winning brands included Pepperidge Farm, Simple Mills, Godiva, Teakoe, Green Bee and more.
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