The US FDA has approved a new high intensity sweetener, advantame, for general use in foods and beverages. This new sweetener, whose safety is supported by 37 scientific studies, has successfully completed the food additive petition approval process of the FDA. This is the first...
Cargill has announced the introduction of its new ViaTech stevia-based sweeteners that, it says, can open up completely new territory for food and beverage formulators, enabling them to slash sugar by 75% - and in some cases 100% - without compromising taste....
Aspartame poses no threat to consumers at current recommended levels of consumption, the outcome of a recent European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) risk assessment concluded this week (December 10)....
A new review in Food and Chemical Toxicology reaffirmed the safety of aspartame. The study, 'Aspartame, low-calorie sweeteners and disease: regulatory safety and epidemiological issues', examined the research that has been done over the past 22 years on the safety of aspartame.
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In what could be a major change in the method that companies use to extract the sweet steviol glycosides in the stevia plant, US-based Cargill and the Swiss company, Evolva, have agreed to join together to develop fermentation-derived steviol glycosides, which will enable the production...
In what appears to be the first FMCG product containing stevia, specialist sugar-free foods company, Cape Town's Delite Foods has launched Tantalize, a stevia leaf extract liquid sweetener.
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Stevia, the "natural, healthy" alternative to sugar, has finally been approved for use in South Africa with the recent promulgation (10 September 2012) of new sweetener regulations.
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Tate & Lyle has developed and will soon launch a new stevia sweetener, branded Tasteva, and which it says does not have the bitter flavour associated with many stevia sweeteners on the market....
Stevia has been much in the news again, with its recent official clearance for use within the 27 EU member states (from 2 December 2011). Analyst insight from Euromonitor International claims that one of stevia's biggest stumbling blocks to wider acceptabilty, a bitter aftertaste,...
The hotly-contested market for aspartame in SA is in for a shake up with news that the world leader, Ajimimoto Sweeteners Europe (ASE), has entered the local market via its new agent, Savannah Fine Chemicals.
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