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Thomas Barregren

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Case: Switsbake makes sugar-free muffins with Eureba

There are tough require­ments to mar­ket some­thing as sug­ar-free. But Switsbake’s sug­ar-free vanil­la muffins meet those require­ments thanks to EUREBA®. In this inter­view, Swissbakes’ prod­uct man­ag­er talks about his expe­ri­ence with Eureba and plans for the future.

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Nutri-Score – everything you need to know

The European Commission has long sought an EU-wide front-of-pack­age label to help con­sumers find health­i­er food options. The hottest can­di­date is the Nutri-Score.

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Sweet from nature – the sweet jouney (part 5 of 6)

To reduce sug­ar and calo­ries, while main­tain­ing good taste, sweet­en­ers with a lot of sweet­ness and few or no calo­ries are required. In the fifth of six arti­cles about our sweet­en­ing jour­ney, it’s time for sweet­en­ers of nat­ur­al origin.

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Chemically sweet – the sweet journey (part 4 of 6)

Regular sug­ar can­not be replaced with fruc­tose, malti­tol, glu­cose syrup and oth­er bulk sweet­en­ers if the calo­ries are to be reduced. The solu­tion is sweet­en­er that gives a lot of sweet­ness for lit­tle or no calo­ries. In the fourth of six arti­cles from our sweet jour­ney, we look at arti­fi­cial sweeteners.

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Monster sugars — The Sweetening Journey (part 3 of 6)

In part 3 of the sweet­en­ing jour­ney, we have come to the ‘mon­ster sug­ars’. Here we find, among oth­ers, invert sug­ar, isoglu­cose and glu­cose syrup. These are sug­ar-like prod­ucts that are rich in calo­ries and have a high GI. From a health per­spec­tive, there are def­i­nite­ly bet­ter alternatives.

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Sweet alcohols - The Sweetening Journey (part 2 of 6)

Our sweet­en­ing jour­ney con­tin­ues! In the sec­ond part, we take a clos­er look at sug­ar alco­hols, such as malti­tol and ery­thri­tol. What exact­ly are sug­ar alco­hols and do they have any disadvantages?

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The Sweetening Journey – from sugar to sweetened fibres (part 1 of 6)

Part 1 of our sweet­en­ing jour­ney. How can the food and bev­er­age indus­try reduce sug­ar? And what are they going to replace it with? In the first part of the sweet­en­ing jour­ney, we inves­ti­gate what sug­ar real­ly is and then we take a clos­er look at alter­na­tive sug­ars such as glu­cose and fructose.

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E-sensory for food and beverage producers

What is e-sen­so­ry? And why should you care? If you’re won­der­ing, you should read this arti­cle, We will try to answer the two ques­tions in this article.

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How stevia extract is produced from stevia leaf

Stevia extract is a mix­ture of ste­vi­ol gly­co­sides extract­ed from the leaves of ste­via plants. In this arti­cle, we take a clos­er look at how ste­via refiner­ies extract and puri­fy frac­tions of ste­vi­ol gly­co­sides and then mix them into ste­via extracts.

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Sweeted fibres at 40× magnificatiopn

Sweetened fibres under the microscope

Food and bev­er­age pro­duc­ers’ dilem­ma is con­sumers desire to both remove sug­ar and retain its sweet­ness and mouth­feel. In the­o­ry, the solu­tion is to replace sug­ar with ingre­di­ents with less calo­ries but the same sweet­ness and mouth­feel. Sweetened fibres is such a solu­tion. It is a new kind of bulk sweet­en­er that is as sweet as reg­u­lar sug­ar, con­tributes to the product’s taste and mouth­feel as reg­u­lar sug­ar, has the same vol­ume and weight as reg­u­lar sug­ar, can be trans­port­ed, stored and used as reg­u­lar sug­ar, while hav­ing few­er calo­ries than reg­u­lar sug­ar, and have less impact on the lev­el of blood sug­ar than reg­u­lar sug­ar. In this arti­cle, we take a clos­er look (lit­er­al­ly) on sweet­ened fibres, and answer some ques­tions: What is sweet­ened fibres? What are they made of? And how does it work?

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