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.

Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food ingredients and solutions, served a healthier twist on culinary classics during the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo in Chicago. Developed to celebrate the IFT’s 75th anniversary, the tasting menu consisted of reduced-calorie root beer craft soda; low-sodium, crispy French fry sticks; gluten-free German chocolate bundtini cake; and a reduced-calorie/reduced-sugar, soft-serve ice cream sundae bar.

Tate & Lyle, a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, announced plans for a further expansion of its Lafayette, Ind., operations, investing $65 million by 2016.

Tate & Lyle’s new DOLCIA PRIMA™ Low-Calorie Sugar will transform the way the food and beverage processors develop low- or reduced-calorie products.

Tate & Lyle’s SODA-LO Salt Microspheres is a salt reducing ingredient that tastes, labels and functions like salt—because it is salt.

Consumer taste-test research reveals Tate & Lyle’s TASTEVA Stevia Sweetener is preferred by nearly two out of three consumers (63%) over rebaudioside A, a prevalent stevia ingredient often associated with bitter aftertastes.

There are between 2,000 and 5,000 taste buds scattered over the surface of the human tongue.

Tate & Lyle PLC announced the establishment of a joint venture with Gemacom Tech Indústria e Comércio S.A. (“Gemacom Tech”) through the acquisition by Tate & Lyle of a majority equity interest in Gemacom Tech.

Industry judges honored Tate & Lyle’s new salt-reduction ingredient, SODA-LO Salt Microspheres, as the “Heart Health and Circulatory Innovation of the Year” and as the overall “Most Innovative Health Ingredient of the Year,” during the NuW Excellence Awards at Health Ingredients Europe.

Tate & Lyle signed an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Eminate Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Nottingham for its salt reduction technology.