Replacing sugar is more complex than simply replacing sweetness. Sugar carries flavor, enhances mouthfeel, provides bulk, is essential for browning through the Maillard reaction with amino acids, and attracts and retains moisture. In cookies and biscuits, for example, sugar interfaces with flour and fat to affect texture, firmness and spread. Without sugar, products may not crystallize properly, aerate, or set.
Conagen, Sweegen partner to offer scalable sweetness enhancers from nature
July 8, 2022
Conagen, a Massachusetts-based biotech firm, has commercialized an expansive portfolio of natural sweetness enhancers for taste modification in sugar reduction solutions for food and beverages. The enhancers are made with precision fermentation, a technology that has led to the innovation of an extensive platform of phenolic antioxidants.
In 2016, Imbibe responded to industry megatrends around clean label and sugar reduction by forming a team that has been solely focused on exploring new ingredient technologies from suppliers across the industry.
Ingredion’s new SWEETABULARY Sweetness Language helps formulators “dial in” sweetness and create consumer-preferred products.
February 26, 2014
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.
In other research, scientists explored the effects of noise on the perception of alcoholic beverages’ sweetness. The admittedly small control group (80 participants) at the University of Portsmouth had to rate the alcohol strength, sweetness and bitterness of a selection of drinks while they were exposed to different distractions, such as music, hearing and repeating a news story, both music and news, and silence.
Monk fruit concentrate, an all-natural and fruit-based sweetening ingredient, will debut to the nutrition community at this year's national American Dietetic Association's Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo.