Sweeteners
Remove to improve With ten years focused on sweeteners at Tate & Lyle, Storms is more than familiar with the subject. Working to drive reduction in sugar and calories, while maintain the same great taste that consumers demand has played a key role in her time at Tate & Lyle. “We understand the importance of taste: our scientists are experts at taking sugar and calories out, while keeping the all-important sweetness and taste that define our customers’ brands,” she adds. “Over the past two years, we removed four million tonnes of sugar from people’s diets through low/-no calorie sweeteners and fibres.” It makes sense that Tate & Lyle are experts when it comes to the sweeteners industry, with over 160 years in the business of providing the all-important sweetness and taste for the savvy customer. As the market has grown and developed, Tate & Lyle has grown alongside, expanding its understanding and portfolio to make then experts in sweeteners. Discovering the no-calorie Sucralose in 1976, this led to SPLENDA Sucralose product in partnership with McNeils Nutritionals. “SPLENDA Sucralose has since reshaped the sweetener landscape and has, through our customers’ products, helped create a wider range than ever before of great-tasting low-calorie foods and beverage for consumers,” Storms says. As Storms puts it, the success of SPLENDA is a testament to the company’s commitment to innovation, quality and customer services over the years. The success of sweeteners such as SPLENDA is indicative of the sugar-alternatives popularity in food and drink. According to data from NHANES, it concluded 41.4% of adults were using low-calorie sweeteners (LCS), with 95.5% of adults having tried LCS at least once in their life. “Today, as a global leader in sweetening, mouthfeel, and fortification, we are very well placed to benefit from growing global consumer demand for food and drink, which is lower in sugar, calories and fat, and has more fibre.”
There is no question that sweeteners have evolved significantly in the past century or so, ever since their accidental discovery in the 1800s. Acesulfame K, aspartame, saccharin, sorbitol, sucralose, stevia and xylitol; these make up the sweeteners approved for use in the UK, all of which had to undergo rigorous safety assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) before they can be used in food and drink. Moreover, the health claims made about xylitol, sorbitol and sucralose, among others, were approved by EFSA as a helpful alternative to sugar.
“LNCS are recommended by specialist professional associations worldwide, such as American Diabetes Association and World Health Organisation, as a replacement for sugar for people with diabetes.”
Once considered a novel ingredient, sweeteners are sweeping the mainstream and can be found in many food and beverage options, from drinks, desserts and ready meals to cakes, chewing gum, toothpaste and diet soft drinks. The great taste that they provide, while limiting sugar intake, is thanks to the development of artificial sweeteners over the years. “Thanks to new developments and innovation, taste had improved dramatically over the years and sugar reduction levels have gone up, while cost in use for sweeteners has gone down, making it more widely accessible and used in a larger number and variety of applications,” Storms explains. “Tate & Lyle’s deep scientific knowledge in the fields of biochemistry and materials science, coupled with our core capabilities in areas such as enzymology and fermentation, industrial scale up, drying and crystallisation and separation and fractionation have helped us to continuously innovate and create solutions for customers that address growing consumer trends such as sugar reduction.”
The Acceptable Daily Intake of artificial sweeteners
Low-Calorie Sweetener
Aspartame Acesulfame-K Saccharin Sucralose Neotame Advantame Brand Names† Equal, NutraSweet, Sugar Twin Sunett, Sweet One Sweet’N Low, Sweet Twin, Necta Sweet Splenda Newtame No brand names Sweetness as compared with sugar 200 times sweeter than sugar 200 times sweeter than sugar 200-700 times sweeter than sugar 600 times sweeter than sugar 7,000-13,000 times sweeter than sugar 20,000 times sweeter than sugar Acceptable Daily Intake*
(maximum number of tabletop sweetener packets per day)
75** 23 45 23 23 4,920
*An Acceptable Daily Intake is the maximum amount of a substance that can be consumed daily over the course of a person’s lifetime with no appreciable health risk, and is based on the highest intake that does not lead to observable adverse effects. Calculations are based on a 132 pound individual.
**People with a rare hereditary disease known as phenylketonuria (PKU) have difficulty breaking down phenylalanine, a component of aspartame, and should limit their intake of phenylalanine from all sources, including aspartame.
†The inclusion of brand-names on this list is for reference only and does not constitute an endorsement. The Nutrition Source does not endorse specific brands. Source: Nutrition Source
40%
The percentage of the population that is affected by diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease, which white table sugar is considered a main cause of.
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