Tag: Sugar
Americas: Consumers found to be more mindful about taking sugar
The US Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are released every five years, were issued last week and one of the new guidelines’ strongest recommendation...
Europe: FAO food price index drops in December 2015
Prices of major food commodities declined for the fourth year in a row in 2015, averaging 19.1% below their previous-year's levels.
The dwindling global economy...
Americas: PureCircle’s stevia ingredients for low-to-zero calorie products
PureCircle releases its newest set of stevia ingredients, the Zeta Family, which are made with steviol glycosides with the most sugar-like taste for low-to-zero...
World: Taste, flavor drive flavored milk consumption, finds DSM report
Flavored milk consumption is soaring and is not limited to children alone, as adults are also embracing these dairy beverages, according to DSM's Global...
Europe: Consumers have mixed views on sugar, finds survey
Consumers perceive sugar as both a ‘friend and foe’ in their nutrition, according to a quantitative consumer research commissioned by Beneo.
The results also underline...
Americas: Foodservice’s sugar-free offerings increase with health-conscious consumers
Sugar is now the top item consumers are trying to avoid in their diets and is neck-and-neck with calories as the top item they...
Americas: Stevia less bitter than before, finds researchers
Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia’s bitter aftertaste by physical – rather than chemical – means, as noted in the Volume 197,...
Europe: Treatt presents sweetener, tea range at FIE
Treatt will present its customizable, non-calorific blends of 100% natural essences and flavors to create low or no sugar drinks at Food Ingredients Europe...
Americas: Cargill debuts zero calorie sweetener at show
Cargill exhibited EverSweet, a next-generation zero calorie sweetener, at SupplySide West in the US from October 7 to 8, 2015.
"At a time when many...
Europe: Corbion Purac receives patent for sugar coating technology
Corbion Purac has received a European patent for its coating technology for acid powders, applied in acid-sanded sugar confectionery.
Based on this technology, the company...