Kerr by Ingredion showcases clean, simple fruit, vegetable ingredients in better-for-you prototypes
November 30, 2023
Ingredion Incorporated used SupplySide West 2023 to showcase its Kerr by Ingredion portfolio of fruit- and vegetable-based juices, purees, concentrates, essences, distillates and custom formulations (from both conventional and organic sources).
HealthTech Bioactives showcases taste modulation solutions at Fi Europe 2023
November 29, 2023
HealthTech BioActives (HTBA), a global leader in natural flavonoids and active forms of B12, invited attendees of Fi Europe to visit HTBA stand 4.0D122 on November 28-30, 2023, in Frankfurt, Germany. Visitors to the booth can meet with HTBA experts and learn more about how HTBA’s solutions can help overcome taste challenges such as sweetness enhancement and taste masking.
BENEO boosts liquid chicory root fiber production with expanded shelf life of one year
November 21, 2023
BENEO has extended a production line at its Pemuco, Chile, operation that enables processing capabilities for the production of its liquid chicory root fiber Orafti® Oligofructose LL with a significantly expanded shelf life of one year.
Creating lower-sugar alternatives to high-sugar dairy products has becomes especially important considering that, according to the CDC’s 2022 National Diabetes Statistics Report, some 130 million Americans—around one-third of the total population—have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and more than 10% don’t even know it. But the dairy industry has not been asleep at the wheel when it comes to this crisis.
The past decade has seen the rise of natural, botanical sweeteners of all types and abilities flooding the market. These plant-derived sweeteners range from zero-calorie HIS products such as stevia and monkfruit to monosaccharides like unrefined plant sugars which offer only a slight reduction in calories but bring other advantages to the table. The challenge for product formulators is to meet the demand for products with less sugar but make them as indistinguishable as possible from their full-sugar counterparts.
Sugar reduction—applying the term as a generic for full-calorie sweeteners—remains one of the top concerns among consumers, yet the lack of willingness to sacrifice flavor and function remains a challenge to product developers.
With only a couple of exceptions, lower-and zero-calorie sugar alternatives have failed to live up to the multifaceted functionality and flavor of sucrose and its components, glucose and fructose. In fact, great taste remains one of the primary obstacles to overcome with the range of sugar alternatives cropping up in the marketplace. A close second, of course, is performance in a formulation.
The global zero sugar beverages market is estimated to represent a value of $3.3 billion in 2023
July 17, 2023
For the manufacturing community, a fundamental challenge resides in the fact that many high-intensity sweeteners feature undesirable characteristics. Most of the components contain off-notes, which often unbalance flavor, especially if a product developer is also attempting to add active substances to increase health attributes.
Tate & Lyle’s new TASTEVA® SOL Stevia Sweetener helps solve stevia solubility issues in food and beverages
July 12, 2023
An internationally patent protected breakthrough in stevia technology, this addition expands Tate & Lyle’s ability to help customers solve stevia solubility issues in food and beverages and helps deliver on consumer demand for healthier and tastier, sugar and calorie reduced products.