A Taste of Wellness for Savoury and Snacks
Givaudan
25-May-2012 - Firms sourcing sucralose from China are struggling to secure supplies owing to a combination of factors including rising demand as sugar prices rise, electricity shortages in southern China and tighter enforcement of environmental legislation, FoodNavigator-USA has learned.
24-May-2012 - While consumer concerns about fats appear to have waned somewhat, the percentage of Americans blaming sugars for their expanding waistlines has almost doubled since last year, according to new research.
23-May-2012 - Monk fruit extract may be set to become a mainstream natural sweetener alongside stevia, but price remains a barrier, according to a Euromonitor industry analyst.
21-May-2012 - Sugar users have said they are disappointed that both the Senate and House Agriculture Committees have voted to advance the 2012 Farm Bill without amending current sugar policy, which they claim costs the US food industry by inflating domestic sugar prices.
18-May-2012 - Belgian firm Nutrilab NV is preparing to introduce low-calorie, low glycemic bulk sweetener Tagatose to North and South America later this year, six years after dairy giant Arla Foods pulled the plug on the ingredient claiming it was not commercially viable.
15-May-2012 - The Coca-Cola Company is poised to test its own mid-calorie sodas in the US using Sprite and Fanta using natural sweeteners including Cargill's stevia brand, hot on the heels of PepsiCo’s mid-calorie cola launch Pepsi NEXT.
14-May-2012 - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has predicted a record corn harvest in 2012-13, potentially easing cost pressures on food manufacturers by the end of the calendar year.
08-May-2012 - From stevia to monk fruit, oats, agave nectar and coconut palm sugar. In the second of our spring special editions, we look at what’s next for natural sweeteners.
04-May-2012 - Stevia supplier GLG Life Tech has stopped trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange after it received a full cease trade order from the British Columbia Securities Commission, due to delayed filing of its year-end financial statements and related documents.
27-Apr-2012 - Sweet Green Fields has scored another industry first with the planting of the first commercial stevia crops in the Southeast United States.
27-Apr-2012 - Sales of new mid-calorie cola Pepsi NEXT are ahead of expectations, while early feedback suggests it is attracting new consumers - as well as lapsed cola drinkers - into the cola category, PepsiCo has revealed.
26-Apr-2012 - What’s in a name? Everything, when it comes to ‘cleaning’ up ingredients declarations, says National Starch/Corn Products International, which has launched an online hub at cleanlabelinsights.com to collate the latest research and market data to help manufacturers determine what consumers are looking for on food labels.
18-Apr-2012 - A coalition of consumer groups has written to the FDA urging it to “act decisively” and refuse the Corn Refiners Association’s petition to allow ‘corn sugar’ as an alternative name for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) on ingredient lists.
12-Apr-2012 - Tate & Lyle’s continuous production process for sucralose trumps rivals’ in the efficiency and sustainability stakes, while patents covering key elements of the new process “go out well into the next decade”, according to IP boss Chris Darwen.
11-Apr-2012 - For a long time, Tate & Lyle had the sucralose market to itself. It discovered it, patented it to the hilt, and perfected the manufacturing process at plants capable of producing it on an industrial scale.
11-Apr-2012 - It’s not as sexy as stevia, and not as cheap as aspartame, but sucralose continues to press food formulators’ buttons, and demand is still growing – fast - says market leader Tate & Lyle.
10-Apr-2012 - In spring 2009, employees at Tate & Lyle’s sucralose factory in McIntosh, Alabama, got some grim news. The site – the first in the world to produce sucralose on an industrial scale - was being mothballed, with production shifting to T&L’s new facility in Singapore.
10-Apr-2012 - McIntosh, Alabama. It's hot, sweaty, and historic... For history buffs, it's where former vice president Aaron Burr was arrested for treason back in 1807... For food scientists, it's where sucralose was first manufactured on an industrial scale.
03-Apr-2012 - Cargill has launched Truvia Baking Blend, a combination of its Truvia-branded stevia high intensity sweetener and sugar with 75% fewer calories than sugar.
30-Mar-2012 - Taste issues and high cost repeatedly have been raised as possible obstacles to widespread acceptance of stevia-derived sweeteners, but one of the many new suppliers entering the market claims that these are no longer the hurdles they once were.