With the European Commission amending its current steviol glycocide specifications on November 3, 2016, European food and beverage companies can use Cargill’s ViaTech stevia sweeteners to help them achieve optimal sweetness and dramatic sugar reductions in their most challenging applications, like carbonated soft drinks.
Under the existing legislation, sweeteners made from steviol glycosides need to consist of at least 75% stevioside and/or rebaudioside A (Reb A), limiting the ViaTech sweetener options available to food and beverage manufacturers in Europe.
The updated European Commission legislation removes the 75 percent restriction and allows any combination of the 11 approved steviol glycosides as alternatives to Reb A as the predominant components.
ViaTech was launched in 2014, which uses a proprietary taste-prediction model to predict optimal combinations of steviol glycosides to deliver a great taste.
