Emerging Ingredients and Technologies

Added Sugars in Nutrition Facts Panel

Added Sugars in Nutrition Facts Panel

Added Sugars Declarations in Nutrition Facts Labeling is a popular and complicated topic. When it comes to naturally sweet ingredients, such as fruits and vegetables, what needs to be included as “Added Sugar” in the Nutrition Facts panel? By Lauren Swann, MS, RD,...

[Webinar] Benefits – Polyols, Allulose and Tagatose Presentation

[Webinar] Benefits – Polyols, Allulose and Tagatose Presentation

Benefits - Polyols, Allulose and Tagatose Speaker: Melanie Goulson, MSc, President, Merlin Development Melanie Goulson brings her deep experience and Merlin Development’s rich history to the critical intersection of ingredient applications, new product development,...

Protein Trends & Technologies Library

Protein Trends & Technologies Library

Welcome to Protein Trends & Technologies Seminar Library, which provides free access to valuable speaker presentations and post-conference summaries. A Sweetener Systems Library and Clean Label Library that provide access to summaries and presentations from past...

Clean Label Library

Clean Label Library

Welcome to the Clean Label Conference Library. This section provides free access to valuable Clean Label Conference speaker presentations and magazines offering post-conference summaries. Please scroll down to access the 2023 Clean Label Conference speaker and...

Allulose to Tagatose in Sugar Replacement

Allulose to Tagatose in Sugar Replacement

MANY OF OUR FAVORITE BAKERY TREATS contain about one third sugar, noted Melanie Goulson, MSc, General Manager & Principal Scientist, Merlin Development in her presentation, “New Kids on the Block: From Allulose to Tagatose, Properties & Performance in Sugar...

Taste Improvement: New Sweet Taste Modulator

Taste Improvement: New Sweet Taste Modulator

NO NON-CALORIC SUGAR SUBSTITUTE tastes exactly like sucrose. “Research into improving taste of sugar substitutes in beverages involves 10 metrics,” explained Grant DuBois, Consultant, Sweetness Technologies, LLC. DuBois imparted this information in his presentation...

Culinary Sweetener Strategies

Culinary Sweetener Strategies

THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS chefs use sweeteners, but how do we perceive sweetness? Sweetness is one of the main taste components of flavor, balancing out with salty, sour, bitter and umami. Understanding sweetness perception is especially important to building balanced...

An Update on Added Sugars Labeling

An Update on Added Sugars Labeling

THE FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) published the Small Entity Compliance Guide titled “Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels” in February. Its purpose is to help industry apply the finalized FDA rulings on what foods and ingredients meet their...

Taste Improvement through New Sweet Taste Modulator

Taste Improvement through New Sweet Taste Modulator

No non-caloric sugar substitute tastes exactly like sucrose. “Research into improving taste of sugar substitutes in beverages involves ten metrics,” explained Grant DuBois, Consultant, Sweetness Technologies, LLC. DuBois imparted this information in his presentation...

Sugar Reduction: Frozen Dairy Desserts

Sugar Reduction: Frozen Dairy Desserts

Sugar Reduction: Frozen Dairy Desserts AS WITH BAKERY PRODUCTS, sugar’s most critical role is to control the texture of frozen dairy and frozen novelty products, began Jon Hopkinson, Ph.D., a technology consultant specializing in frozen desserts, in his presentation...