Sugar reduction efforts from food and beverage processors include product reformulations, as well as new offerings with reduced sugar or zero sugar content.

Despite a myriad of alternative sweeteners, reducing sugar in foods and beverages is a big challenge for product developers.

New functional foods, drinks and supplements introduced to the Better For You segment in July 2018.

SweeGen’s unique production process starts with the stevia leaf and uses a proprietary technology to achieve high purity levels of Reb D. Sensory mapping, obtained through a trained sensory panel, shows that Reb D has a sugar-like sweet taste and has a sweetness onset and sweet linger (also called “sweetness time intensity”) that is closer to sugar than other stevia products. In 2017, the U.S. FDA issued a No Objection Letter for BESTEVIA Reb D stevia leaf sweetener for use as a general-purpose, non-nutritive sweetener for foods and beverages (GRN No. 715).

Cargill has officially started producing EverSweet™, a zero-calorie, next-generation sweetener made with two of the best tasting sweet compounds found in the stevia leaf, Reb M and Reb D.

Made from GLG’s proprietary high Reb M Dream SweetenerTM Stevia Leaf, this next generation stevia product line facilitates sugar replacement with better-tasting, low-calorie natural sweetening systems and solutions that provide a sugar-like sensory experience.

BESTEVIA Reb D, SweeGen’s non-caloric, high-purity stevia sweetener with a clean, sugar-like taste, is produced from the stevia leaf.

Symrise NA’s new SymLife Sweet flavors provide sweetness modulation solutions in a variety of food and beverage applications. The new SymLife Sweet series is part of Symrise’s “Taste for Life” product platform.

Food and beverage product developers can now achieve the deepest level of sugar and calorie reductions with PureCircle’s newest Zeta set of stevia ingredients.

Ohly’s new SAV-R-SWEET offers a clean tasting, natural solution to target loss of taste in reduced sugar foods and beverages. Specifically, this new product effectively masks the off-taste of stevia, a natural high intensity sweetener used to replace sugar.