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Sugar Reduction Insights: Dairy Products to Protein Bars

Sugar Reduction Insights: Dairy Products to Protein Bars

SUGAR REDUCTION is universally attractive to consumers across a wide range of foods, including both indulgent and healthy products. However, sugar plays multiple roles in foods, contributing to flavor, texture and structure. This makes replacing sucrose particularly...

Consumers & Sweeteners: A Complicated Love Affair

Consumers & Sweeteners: A Complicated Love Affair

A COMPREHENSIVE MARKET and consumer trends assessment entitled “Retooling for the New Sweetener Influencers” was provided by Elizabeth Sloan, Ph.D., of Sloan Trends, Inc. for the 2020 Sweetener Systems Conference. Sloan's presentation focused particularly on consumers...

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...