From reducing calories to focusing on health and wellness, consumers are cutting back on sugar across the globe. However, they still love sweet food and beverages. The key challenge for manufacturers is delivering sugar-reduced products that still provide great taste. This means navigating the many factors that contribute to successfully mirroring sugar-like or consumer-preferred sweetness profiles.
Technical complexities. Ingredient interactions. Regulatory considerations. Every obstacle is an opportunity to enhance your products and win on shelf. Our comprehensive capabilities and groundbreaking research give your products the advantage when it comes to sweetness.
Pioneers in Sweetness
We are proud leaders in the world of sweetness, with many groundbreaking and industry-defining discoveries, such as sucralose or the commercialisation of allulose at scale and bio-converted Reb M. Discover more about our achievements and credentials by exploring our extensive sweetener portfolio.
Achieving sugar-like sweetness, that delivers on taste, cost and labelling, can take more than single ingredient swaps. To inform the approach needed to reach your goals, we split objectives into three categories. Just let us know what you want to achieve.
Sweetness ReplacementWe can replace the sweetness and performance of sugar using our high-potency sweeteners and rare sugars. Our sensory experts have a deep understanding of the ingredients themselves and their interactions, for formulation solutions tailored to your needs.
| Taste ImprovementWe create formulations that improve sweet taste and remove bitterness or lingering by using flavours with modifying properties (FMPs).
| Mouthfeel ReconstructionMouthfeel is a big part of how consumers experience sweet taste in sugar-reduced formulations. We optimise formulations beyond sweetness replacement, identifying the mouthfeel characteristics that are key to building back a sugar-like taste experience.
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Solutions spotlight
Sweeteners do so much more than just sweeten. Their inherent functional properties can depress freezing point, add glazing or coating, or impact browning and appearance. Understanding the synergies of sweetening solutions is vital, as is a broad portfolio.
Sugar replacements that provide differing levels of sweetness, across a variety of cost and label considerations. Many are derived from plants and contain low or no calories. Some solutions are available in both crystalline and syrup forms.
These offer versatile solutions for enhancing sweetness and texture in food products. Fructose, a naturally occurring sugar, provides a sweet taste with a lower glycaemic impact, while maltodextrin serves as a key bulking agent.
Flavours that provide modifying properties in certain formulations, improving sweet flavour while reducing bitterness or lingering.
Discover how our expert team turns ingredients into solutions by exploring the different applications our sweetening portfolio can have.
Our liquid and dry sweeteners can add bulk, body and optimum sweetness to cakes, biscuits and pastries. Some sweeteners offer browning properties, to boost the appearance of crusts and biscuits.
Tate & Lyle sweeteners can improve a variety of beverages, including soft drinks and juices. Our team can help reduce calories, increase sweetness, and improve fruity flavours by using smart ingredient swaps and advanced ingredient combinations
Our team can enhance your breakfast cereal range by adding sweetness to coatings and improving the gloss and sheen.
Boiled sweets, caramels, jellies, marshmallows, chewing gum, fondant, marzipan and fillings are just some of the products that are ideal for our comprehensive range of sweeteners, where they provide benefits like enhanced fruity flavours and improved chewiness.
Our range of nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners are ideal for various dairy products. We enhance the scoopability and sweetness of ice cream, improve the texture and stability of creamy or fruity flavours, and enhance Mouthfeel while offering low-calorie options for popular favourites.
In the snack category our sweetening ingredients offer versatile binding properties that enhance chewiness and sweetness in products like cereal bars. They are also effective in boosting sweetness in low-calorie and low-sugar snack options.
Our sweetening ingredients offer cost effective solutions in your soups, sauces and dressings applications, and can also be used with a combination of other ingredients for additional bulking properties.
Sweetening case studies, insights & resources
Sweetening case studies, insights & resources
When it comes to the science of sweetening, we aren’t just market leaders, we’re pioneers. Our comprehensive capabilities and groundbreaking research give your products the advantage when it comes to sweetness.
Prospective purchasers are advised to conduct their own tests, studies and review of the intellectual property and regulatory space to determine the fitness of Tate & Lyle products for their particular purposes, product claims or specific applications