Ingredion Incorporated offers a new line of low-sugar glucose syrups. VERSASWEET™ low-sugar glucose syrups help manufacturers of confectionery, dairy, ice cream and baked good products achieve reduced grams of sugar on the Nutrition Facts panel by formulating with low-sugar corn- or tapioca-based glucose syrups that—compared to standard glucose syrups—have a lower percentage of mono- and disaccharides, also called DP1 + DP2.

The technical experts at BENEO, a leading manufacturer of functional ingredients, have conducted technical trials to improve the shelf life and quality of glazed and iced, freshly and frozen packed donuts.

Batory Foods has become a select distributor of Celanese Corporation’s Qorus™ sweetener system

Sugar producers and marketers have been hit hard by world price declines, a flood of low-cost Mexican imports, high stock levels, and face the serious likelihood of lower purchase and consumption levels in response to growing concerns about the negative health effects of added sugars.

Advantame is 20,000 times sweeter, gram per gram, than table sugar.

The analysis also shows that low calorie sweeteners do not cause weight gain.

The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.9% from 2013 to 2018.

Ingredion Incorporated says it offers a SWEETABULARY ™ sweetness language, a vocabulary that combines Ingredion’s comprehensive analytical and sensory understanding and connects the consumer experience of sweetness with taste and functional attributes that the company uses to create appealing products with sugar-like profiles.

Subway, Chipotle, Arby's and Panera already exclude sugary drinks from kids' meals.

Among other comments, John Bode contends, "The Sugar Association publicly promoted a study that it internally assessed as 'totally flawed.'"