Maximizing Sugar’s Flavor with Sweetness Modulators By Thom King – Chief Innovations Officer, Icon Foods Given the rising cost of sugar, its negative press, and increasing pressure from the FDA, USDA, and the Truth in Labeling Act, many formulators are eager to innovate by enhancing the potency of sugar in Read more…
Sweet Success with IconiSweet Gold By Thom King – Chief Innovations Officer Icon Foods Icon Foods’ IconiSweet Gold is a revolutionary clean-label brown sugar substitute that offers a guilt-free sweetening solution without compromising on taste or texture. This innovative sweetening system contains natural compounds with no added sugar, making it Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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Formulating food and beverages with high-intensity sweeteners, such as thaumatin, presents a unique challenge. Due to the minimal quantity required to achieve the sweetness equivalent to sugar, precise measurement is crucial! Even a slight miscalculation can significantly alter the sweetness and flavor profile of the formulation. However, when used Read more…
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Reduce Sugar with ErySweet+ ErySweet+ is a powdered blend of erythritol and stevia extract. This natural sweetening solution brings together optimal levels of proprietary steviol glycosides and erythritol—a sugar alcohol derived by microbial fermentation. The combination of erythritol and stevia provides a multitude of benefits for formulators. Stevia is a Read more…
Formulate With ThauSweet The primary effective compound in ThauSweet is derived from thaumatin which comes from a mixture of proteins isolated from the katemfe fruit of West Africa. Thaumatin is the sweetest natural substance known to man but is almost exclusively used for its flavoring characteristics—flavor and sweetening modifying effects Read more…