Sweeteners

RSS

Driven by the global rise of obesity, diabetes, and other health concerns, alternative sweeteners have gained a 12% share of the $73.4 billion global market for sweeteners and 22% of its volume by sucrose equivalent (SE), according to Lux Research.

The concerns about obesity and related health problems plus sugar taxes in many countries have stimulated the market for non-caloric sweeteners.

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

Nagase America, New York, N.Y., hired Sharrann Simmons for a newly created position of senior business manager within Nagase’s Life Sciences division.

Archer Daniels Midland Company has opened its global headquarters and customer center in downtown Chicago.

Coca-Cola Life — a reduced-calorie cola sweetened with cane sugar and stevia leaf extract — launched in the United States on Aug. 25.

The high-intensity sweetener market is a study in contrasts. Although new, natural sweeteners like stevia extract are gaining ground, consumption growth for high-intensity sweeteners as a class has slowed to near zero in North America and Europe, due, in part, to the decline in soft drink consumption in these regions.

Evolva Holding SA, Reinach, Switzerland, said its patent application on a process to efficiently and sustainably produce next-generation sweeteners via fermentation, including Rebaudioside M (“Reb M”), has now published.

Research and Markets has published the "Low-calorie Food Market - Global Forecast, Share, Size, Growth and Industry Analysis, 2014-2019" report.

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.