PureCircle Matrix Solutions made its debut in the 2015 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT 2015) Annual Meeting & Food Expo.
The new family of stevia ingredients has been optimized for specific category applications and performs more similarly to sugar, enabling deeper calorie reductions.
The range includes new stevia ingredient Sigma-T, an ingredient with a clean sweetness profile, reduced astringency and bitterness and a sweet aftertaste that performs parity to sugar at mid-level sugar reductions.
It joins the first product in the Matrix Solutions Family, Sigma-D, a dairy specific ingredient with a clean sweetness profile and preference to Reb A on key attributes, such as bitterness and licorice aftertaste.
It has enabled customers to achieve no sugar added solutions with natural-origin, zero calorie sweeteners for the first time and was launched at Health Ingredients Europe exhibition in December 2014.
“The ingredients significantly outperform first generation Reb A solutions and come from our deep understanding of steviol glycoside research,” said John Martin, PureCircle’s global director for Technical Development and Innovation.
PureCircle Matrix Solutions brings together the company’s expertise in working with the stevia leaf and its proprietary, predictive modeling technology that cuts development time by 30%-50%.
