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SweeGen’s Bestevia Reb M Heads to Final Approval in European Union

Food and beverage manufacturers are one step closer to launching sugar reduced products
April 19, 2021
Navigating sugar reduction solutions in Europe just got better for food and beverage brands. SweeGen announced its next generation Bestevia Rebaudioside M (Reb M) stevia sweetener is in its final phase before the European Union publishes the approval in a few months.
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SweeGen: More Sweetening Options

SweeGen’s Bestevia® Rebaudioside B receives U.S. FDA GRAS “No Objection” letter
March 15, 2021
Ready for use in creative food and beverage innovations, SweeGen’s Bestevia Rebaudioside B has received the GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) Letter of No Objection from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Batory Foods: Sweet Solutions

Batory Foods introduces Sweet Essentials line of interchangeable, high-intensity sweetener blends
February 24, 2021
Batory Foods, a national sales and supply chain management solutions provider of commodity and specialty food ingredients, introduces Batory Sweet Essentials™, a new line of five scientifically-developed high intensity sweetener blends that are sucrose replacers. They are created for optimum performance in sugar reduction and replacement.
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ASR Group Announces Strategic Investment in Bonumose

Move will bring lower-cost, plant-based sugar alternatives to the market
February 17, 2021
American Sugar Refining, Inc., a member of ASR Group, made a strategic investment in Bonumose, Inc. to produce and commercialize lower-cost, plant-based alternative sweeteners tagatose and allulose as part of ASR Group’s strategy to provide a variety of products to meet the wide range of consumer needs.  
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Low and Sweet: Sugar Reduction is Keeping it Real

With consumers continuing to pursue more healthy alternatives to indulgences, counting calories from sugar has taken off
Alexa Bosshardt
Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN
February 12, 2021
Consumers' continued pursuit of more healthy alternatives to their favorite indulgences has led to a rise in the use of natural high-intensity sweeteners, ultra-low-calorie 1:1 drop-in sweeteners, and natural sweetness enhancers.
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Smithfield Foods Commits to Reducing Sodium, Sugar 10%, Cleaner Labeling Across Products by 2025

Optimized sodium, sugar levels and increased label transparency advance Smithfield's mission to produce good food in a sustainable way
January 29, 2021
Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced companywide health and wellness goals as part of its wide-ranging commitment to sustainability and continuous product improvement. By 2025, the company will reduce sodium and sugar by 10% and embrace clean labeling across its portfolio. The new goals are part of Smithfield's new standalone Health and Wellness pillar and expanded sustainability program.
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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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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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