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What You Need to Know About Natural Sweeteners

By choosing nutritive sweeteners, developers can heighten flavor profiles and therefore lower total sugars

October 25, 2024

In the rush to eliminate these sugars, developers often overlook the variety, richness, and culinary versatility that natural caloric sweeteners provide. Such sugars—also termed “nutritive sweeteners”—not only offer sweetness but can add layers of flavor, color, and even nutritional benefits, all in a clean-label format.

How Will the Future of Sweet Cereals Shake Out?

Sweetened cereals still play a prominent role at breakfast for American schoolkids—but lowering sugar in them is a must

Kantha Shelke PhD, CFS

January 10, 2024

Bulking sweeteners, such as sugar alcohols and the newer, rare sugars allulose and tagatose, can require usage levels that are not commercially viable. Plus, parents might be hesitant to purchase cereals with these sucrose substitutes because of a lack of familiarity. Meanwhile, high-intensity sweeteners lack the multifaceted functionality and taste of sucrose and fructose and are not suitable for children whose sweet tooth could use subduing towards lower levels of sweetness in foods.

Tate & Lyle: New Sweetener Solutions

Tate & Lyle expands sweetener portfolio with ERYTESSE™ Erythritol

November 17, 2022

ERYTESSE™ Erythritol has 70% the sweetness of sucrose and a similar temporal profile, with zero[1] calories[2]. It can be used in a range of categories, including beverages, dairy, bakery and confectionery.

Studying the Art and Science of Sugar Reduction Ingredients

Hitting the Sweet Spot: The perception of sweetness for a sweetener relies on how it works in formulation, how it is metabolized in the mouth, and how it binds with receptors on the tongue

Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN

January 11, 2022

Here are some tips and insights into using the currently popular sugar-reduction ingredients that can help processors hit the sweet spot bullseye.

2022 PREDICTIONS | SWEETENERS

Consumer Demand Continues to Drive Sugar Reduction

Sugar Drop: Processors and ingredient technologists are getting creative in meeting consumer demands to cut sugar

Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN

January 4, 2022

The drive to reduce sugar derives from two consumer demands: lower calories and "healthier" (read: no empty calories) ingredients.

Bakery Flavors Have Been Undergoing Changes that Call for Attention

Ingredients such as malted grain syrups, cinnamon, chocolate, fruits, vanilla, spices and even flavored salts and soy sauce are what bring baked goods to life

Marisa Churchill

July 26, 2021

To claim that flavorants used in baked goods are a secondary concern in batch production would be inaccurate. Yet the focus on the flours, texturants, fats, and leavenings in discussions of bakery production seems to overwhelm all other ingredients. Yet ingredients such as malted grain syrups, cinnamon, chocolate, fruits, vanilla, spices and even flavored salts and soy sauce are what bring baked goods to life.

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.

BENEO: Better-for-You Candies

BENEO’S galenIQ makes sugar-free medicated high-boiled lozenges with long shelf-life

May 14, 2020

BENEO’S new galenIQ™ 900 provides a broad range of benefits, such as low hygroscopicity, which promotes long shelf-life stability; as well as prolonged oral dissolution due to its sustained solubility. Furthermore, the sweet-tasting excipient remains inert in the presence of other components such as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and flavorings.

Sweetener Blends Continue to Expand and Become More Nuanced

The Sweet Life: What does the sweetener landscape look like as we enter the third decade of the 21st century?

Alexa Bosshardt MPS, RDN

May 13, 2020

The 2019 International Food Information Council (IFIC) Food and Health Survey reported that limiting or reducing sugar in the diet, along with eating more fruits and vegetables, topped the dietary changes consumers were making.

BENEO: Sugar-Free Appeal

BENEO uses ISM to showcase sugar-free confectionery with authentic global flavors

February 4, 2020

The company unveiled its latest Sweets Collection, a compilation of inspirational, sugar-free candies that contains authentic flavors from around the world.

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ARTICLES

What You Need to Know About Natural Sweeteners

How Will the Future of Sweet Cereals Shake Out?

Tate & Lyle: New Sweetener Solutions

Studying the Art and Science of Sugar Reduction Ingredients

Consumer Demand Continues to Drive Sugar Reduction

Bakery Flavors Have Been Undergoing Changes that Call for Attention

Batory Foods: Sweet Solutions

BENEO: Better-for-You Candies

Sweetener Blends Continue to Expand and Become More Nuanced

BENEO: Sugar-Free Appeal

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