Food formulation

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...

Analytical Methods: Sweetener Labeling

Analytical Methods: Sweetener Labeling

THE REVISED U.S. NUTRITION LABEL regulations, to be implemented in 2020, will transform the carbohydrate portion of the label by including a line for added sugars along with revised definitions of dietary fiber. The food and beverage analysis industries are far from...

Sugar-Reduced Baked Products

Sugar-Reduced Baked Products

HOW DOES ONE DEVELOP SUGAR-REDUCED baked products when the content of these products is defined by their sugar content? Melanie Goulson, MSc, General Manager, Merlin Development and Adjunct Professor, St. Catherine University, provided some potential solutions to this...

High-Potency Sweetener & Taste Modulator Progress

High-Potency Sweetener & Taste Modulator Progress

GRANT DUBOIS, PH.D., Consultant, Sweetness Technologies, LLC, reviewed the progress made on natural high-potency (HP) sweetener systems for food and beverages by offering tantalizing insights on how to resolve some of their negative taste and flavor attributes, in his...

FDA’s Proposed Added Sugar Labeling Creates Confusion

FDA’s Proposed Added Sugar Labeling Creates Confusion

Anticipate turbulence ahead with the FDA's proposed "added sugar" labeling! Changes to the Nutrition Facts label in order to accommodate FDA’s proposed "added sugar” labeling requirements are intended to help, but can also potentially confuse suppliers, manufacturers...

Sugar Reduction Approaches

Sugar Reduction Approaches

Many questions are raised before innovation begins in a process such as sugar reduction, including: How do you grow in emerging markets? How do you get smart from the beginning? What features should you include? What products will let you compete? How can we lean on...

Natural Sweetener Characteristics & Uses

Natural Sweetener Characteristics & Uses

Sweeteners have a variety of functional properties, including taste, texture and crystal control, among others. Yet, with diabetes on the rise and an increased focus on nutrition and well-being, consumers are demanding more healthful products, including those with...

Three Practical Sensory Tools

Three Practical Sensory Tools

The march toward healthier reduced-sugar product formulations may break new ground in the art and science of food formulation, but it will not necessarily break new ground regarding consumers’ expectations for the sensory qualities of their food and beverage choices....

Replication of Sugar Taste

Replication of Sugar Taste

Pressure on food and beverage companies to reduce sugar-derived calories continues to intensify due to the obesity and diabetes epidemics and, more recently, taxation and labeling requirements. Synthetic and natural non-caloric sweetener substitution for sugars is...

2017 Sweetener Systems Conference

2017 Sweetener Systems Conference

The 2017 Sweetener Systems Conference was held November 7, 2017 in Lombard, IL, USA. It is the industry’s only conferences dedicated to information in the hot topic of sweeteners. Presentations provided impartial, “how-to” formulation advice; and updates on consumer...