Nutrition

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,...

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...

Sweetener Systems Library

Sweetener Systems Library

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

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...

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...

Genetics, Sweet Preference, Sleep & Food Choices

Genetics, Sweet Preference, Sleep & Food Choices

With the increased focus on sugars and sweeteners, sophisticated research has investigated unsuspected factors impacting sweetness perception, food preferences and health. For example, about one-third of adults in developed countries report failing to meet recommended...

Fruit Juice Sugar Reduction

Fruit Juice Sugar Reduction

Israeli-based startup Better Juice recently announced that it was teaming up with Brazilian Juice producer Citrosuco SA to establish a pilot plant that will ultimately lead to the production of reduced sugar orange juice. Better Juice Ltd. has developed innovative new...

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...

Are Sugar Consumption & Obesity Correlated?

Are Sugar Consumption & Obesity Correlated?

AT THE OUTSET OF HIS TALK, “Reducing Added Sugars: Will It Reverse the Trend Toward Overweight & Obesity,” John White, Ph.D., President and Founder, White Technical Research, asked how many in the audience believed that sugar consumption was correlated with...

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...