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How Sugar Substitutes Stack Up 29 May 2009 | 02:35 am
A new generation of artificial sweeteners PureVia, Truvia, ZSweet, Zerose and Xagave, are here to push the old timers saccharine, aspartame, and sucralose off the market shelves. And the older lot may...
Sugar Substitutes Seeking Sweet Victory 27 May 2009 | 12:26 am
Nearly half of American households use some kind of artificial sweetener, says a 2007 study conducted by Packaged Facts, a market research firm. Until now, the choice of artificial sweeteners was conf...
It’s Official: All Natural Zevia Is the Market Leader 22 May 2009 | 02:24 am
Zevia has been ranked the number one cola in the natural products market by SPINS. That’s not all. Zevia was also named the number one canned beverage as well as the number one diet beverage. The data...
Stevia: The New Sweetener on the Block Comes of Age 14 May 2009 | 01:29 am
Obesity and weight-related health issues have prompted the search for low calorie sweeteners for years. Several sweeteners, including saccharine, aspartame and sucralose have entered the market, and h...
NutraSweet Gears Up for All-Natural Sweetener Competition 31 Jan 2009 | 03:51 am
The sweetness seems to be going out of the life of multimillion dollar artificial sweetener company, Augusta-based NutraSweet Company. Although the management won’t admit it, the company is gearing up...
FDA Approval of Stevia Sweeteners Stirs Debate 27 Jan 2009 | 03:46 am
The approval given by the FDA to the zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener stevia has steered strong debate over the safety of such sugar substitutes. In December of 2008, two new brands containing swe...
Stevia-based Sweetener Truvia Gets FDA Nod 25 Jan 2009 | 03:41 am
December 2008 saw official approval by the FDA for Cargill’s Truvia, a stevia based sweetener. Experts had been predicting that the last month of the year would see FDA approval for the stevia based p...
Pick Your Poison: Aspartame, Diet Soda, Splenda … 1 Nov 2008 | 12:32 am
The way aspartame was discovered is quite interesting. In fact, it was by complete accident when chemist James Schlatter was actually working on an anti ulcer drug when there was a small accident and ...
New High Fructose Corn Syrup Ads: Not So Sweet 31 Oct 2008 | 12:24 am
The Corn Refiners Association has recently sponsored ads on national television promoting high fructose corn syrup. This was appalling to Roufia Payman, director of nutrition education at Northern Duc...
Stevia Sweetener Gets Approval in Australia 30 Oct 2008 | 12:10 am
Stevia, the natural sweetener scientifically known as steviol glycosides, has finally been approved as an ingredient in both foods and beverages in New Zealand and Australia after CQUniversity researc...
