Reducing Added Sugars with ThauSweet DRM in Your Formulas When it comes to threading the needle of clean label sugar reduction in the alchemic world of industrial baking, there are certain challenges that can make it difficult to achieve a palatable finished product that is delicious enough to counter its full-sugar rivals. Read more…
ShellBe Candies Blowout Sale! We are liquidating our ShellBe Candies’ stock! These zero sugar added, candy-coated morsels are ideal for formulators looking to add color, flavor, and texture to a wide variety of applications. Don’t miss out—take advantage of these low costs and secure your inventory before our current stock is gone! Read more…
Market Intelligence Report: Entering Q3 2024 By Thom King – Chief Innovations Officer, Icon Foods Here we are emerging out of the 2nd quarter. It feels like Q1 was just yesterday. First let’s talk about the sticky situation within the sugar industry. If you work with sugar, in the Read more…
FibRefine: Redefining Sugar Reduction with Fiber Sometimes, dietary goals clash. Consider the reduced sugar & increased fiber conundrum. Sugar and fiber are both carbohydrates, but they are nothing alike. Fiber is a complex carbohydrate that is not absorbed by the body. Unlike sugar, it is essential for a healthy Read more…
Benefits of Organic Rebaudioside M Both organic rebaudioside M leaf extract and bioconverted rebaudioside M are forms of stevia plant extract used as natural sweeteners. While both are excellent high intensity sweeteners, let’s explore the potential advantages of organic rebaudioside M leaf extract: Natural and Organic: Organic rebaudioside M leaf extract is Read more…
Preparing for Q2 2024: Market Intelligence Report Good afternoon fellow food scientists, manufacturers, formulators, and enthusiasts of Clean Label Sugar Reduction. You know, in the past, we’ve seen our fair share of challenges and disruptions in the supply chain. 2023 was a year of recovery, giving the air of a Read more…
Formulating with Polysaccharides “Polysaccharides” is such a generic term. Hopefully, this will take some of the mystery out of these complex carbohydrates found abundantly in nature and create a pathway for formulators to use polysaccharides in clean label, reduced sugar applications. Polysaccharides can be used to enhance texture and mouthfeel Read more…
Lock in Chocolate Chip Prices Before Cocoa Inflates! Cocoa prices have surpassed a 46-year-old record, with cocoa futures closing Thursday at $5,635 per metric ton, surpassing the previous record of $5,368 set in July 1977. This 7.1% price increase arrived just ahead of Valentine’s Day (2). Projections indicate a greater Read more…
Proposed TRUTH Bill Advocates for Front-of-Package Labeling Front-of-package labels have made it to Congress! Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut and Representative Jan Schakowsky from Illinois recently presented the Transparency, Readability, Understandability, Truth, and Helpfulness (TRUTH) in Labeling Act to Congress. This proposed act would mandate the FDA create new front-of-package Read more…
Formulate Zero Sugar Added Products With Allulose! Up Next: Blueberry Flavor Bitz!