Today’s consumer demands more of their snack food. They’re looking for healthy, energy-sustaining and—yes—delicious, snack and bakery choices, sometimes to even replace a regular meal. These needs don’t necessarily leave out the use of cane sugar, but this pure sweetener comes with challenges of its own, including periodic price fluctuations.

We are seduced by sweets. Sugar is a drug for some of us. Not me. Give me a saltine over a chocolate square any day.

Sweeteners, sweets, sugars and the rest of it. It's on so many of our minds so much of the time.