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…
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 with PreBiotica AG Inulin! PreBiotica AG Inulin is a powdered prebiotic fiber derived from agave plants—a plant widely known for its use in the production of tequila. Agave has been a mainstay for the indigenous people of North America, where the juice was drunk as a beverage when squeezed Read more…
SteviaSweet RM95 | Balanced Sweetness Made Simple SteviaSweet RM95 is stevia extract powder with a minimum of 95% concentration of rebaudioside M—one of many steviol glycosides found in the Stevia rebaudiana plant. Steviol glycosides are the group of sweet constituents which reside in the stevia rebaudiana leaf, giving it its Read more…
Big Sugar Fights Back… There is no denying that over the past six months the sugar industry and large CPG’s have been under attack. This started when the FDA proposed a new definition for the term “healthy,” which created a huge divide between big food makers and nutritionists (1). The Read more…
FDA Crack Down Within the last 6 months, we’ve seen the FDA crack down on food regulations with unprecedented precision! Last September, the agency imposed their new definition of the nutrient content claim term “healthy” (7). This sent shock waves throughout the food and beverage industry as manufacturers scrambled to Read more…