Recent News Reports of Sweetener Reformulations Raise Questions About Motivations
WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The misleading "health" halo surrounding highly-publicized marketing campaigns regarding sweetener reformulations is starting to dim. Recent announcements by Starbucks and other brands that they will remove high fructose corn syrup from certain products are...Ingredient in Probiotic Sweetener Boosts Immune System
Nevella(R) with Probiotics developed to enhance health INDIANAPOLIS, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Sweeteners LLC in conjunction with Ganeden Biotech has developed the world's first probiotic sweetener, Nevella(R) with Probiotics, which is designed to boost the immune system and promote ...$450,000 sweetener in colon cancer battle
UK-based Association for International Cancer Research this week announced it will fund a Griffith University project led by Dr Joe Tiralongo to further develop a potential anti-cancer treatment that had shown promising results in lab tests. The grant will enable the team to test a range of ne...New Age Sweetener Launched for Diabetics
A new age sweetener called ‘Cutkal’ that is aimed for the diabetics, obese and the calorie conscious people has been launched by An India Pharma - USV Ltd//. Cutkal has a combination of Aspartame and Acesulfame-K and the sweetener is the same that is used in diet colas around the world. The US F...High-Tech Microbes Bolsters Natural Sweetener Production
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Badal Saha and collaborators have found that the genetically engineered bacteria that eat hemicellulose in corn fiber// and other sources could set the stage for a new, biobased method of making xylitol, a mint-flavored sweetener used in chewing gum, toot...Video: Gabrielle Reece Shows Natural is Beautiful in New PureVia(TM) Campaign
... Ads for New All Natural, Zero Calorie sweetener Made from the Stevia Plant to Appear in August Mag...ce on its great tasting, all natural, zero calorie sweetener PureVia (TM), Whole Earth sweetener Company today announced health icon and beach voll...Evidence-Based Analysis of Aspartame Research
...stions Put to Rest CHICAGO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A just-published research review concludes that, media speculation aside, using aspartame as a sweetener has no effect on appetite or food intake. The same evaluation reaffirmed what regulators and health authorities have said many times before: aspartame...Recent news reports of sweetener reformulations raise questions about motivations
WASHINGTON, DC The misleading "health" halo surrounding highly-publicized marketing campaigns regarding sweetener reformulations is starting to dim. Recent announcements by Starbucks and other brands that they will remove high fructose corn syrup from certain products are being called into que...Quality and purity of popular stevia sweetener strengthened by new reference standards
Rockville, Md., June 1, 2009 As the number of food and beverage products sweetened with stevia-based ingredients continues to grow in the United States and worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention today announces that new reference standards for Rebaudioside A and Stevioside are now ava...New standard for popular stevia-based sweetener to assure product's quality
Rockville, Md., January 5, 2009 Responding to the growing popularity of a plant-based sweetener, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention today announced it is developing a new standard to be included in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) that will help food and beverage manufacturers assure the produ...Honey adds health benefits, is natural preservative and sweetener in salad dressings
Antioxidant-rich honey is a healthy alternative to chemical additives and refined sweeteners in commercial salad dressings, said a new University of Illinois study. "To capitalize on the positive health effects of honey, we experimented with using honey in salad dressings," said Nicki Engeseth,...Sugar study is sweetener for stem cell science
Scientists at The University of Manchester are striving to discover how the body's natural sugars can be used to create stem cell treatments for heart disease and nerve damage thanks to a 370,000 funding boost. All cells that make up the tissues of the body such as skin, liver, brain and bloo...Bad aftertaste? New sensory on/off switch may 'cure' bane of artificial sweetener search
Chemistry and biology researchers at Virginia Tech have enhanced the abilities of the molecules they are creating to deliver killing blows to cancer cells. The man-made molecular complexes enter cancer cells and, when signaled, deliver killing medicine or cause the cell to change. The new supermole...Infant formula adulteration with melamine underscores need for better detection methods
... allow such adulteration to affect people worldwide, which is what happened in similar instances where toxic diethylene glycol was substituted for the sweetener glycerin in toothpaste and cough syrup. USP is a scientific nonprofit organization that sets official standards for the identity, quality, purity, and...Experts lay to rest long-held misconceptions about high fructose corn syrup at ILSI-USDA workshop
...ion, sweetness, energy content, processing and metabolism, claims that such sweetener substitutions bring nutritional benefit to children and their families appear disingenuous and misleading," concluded John S. White, Ph.D., caloric sweetener expert and president of White Technical Research. Since the introduction...Red pandas reveal an unexpected (artificial) sweet tooth
...anda is the first non-primate mammal to display a liking for the artificial sweetener aspartame. This unexpected affinity for an artificial sweetener may reflect structural variation in the red panda's sweet taste receptor. ...Ganeden Biotech and Heartland Sweeteners to Produce Probiotic Sweetener
Leaders in probiotics and artificial sweeteners partner to produce world's first probiotic-enhanced sweetener; collaboration promises to bring innovation to baking aisle INDIANAPOLIS, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Ganeden Biotech, Inc . a Cleveland-based manufacturer of the patented probiotic stra...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES CORPORATE UPDATE AND SECOND QUARTER 2009 FINANCIAL RESULTS
... food and beverage products while maintaining the desired sweet taste. Senomyx discovered and developed S2383, a novel enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose that enables up to a 75% reduction of sucralose in product prototypes without compromising the sweet intensity or producing off-tastes. Use...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF DAVID L. LINEMEYER, PH.D., AS VICE PRESIDENT, BIOLOGY
...omyx's scientific accomplishments have led to the discovery of several new flavor ingredients, including S2383, a novel enhancer of the high intensity sweetener sucralose that is the subject of pre-commercialization activities. In addition, S6973, a sucrose enhancer that enables the reduction of up to 50% of ...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 FINANCIAL RESULTS
...of S2383, our novel enhancer of the high intensity sweetener sucralose, has started conducting product presenta... for S2383, a novel enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose. In addition to enabling up to a 75% re...se, a key component of high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener used in numerous food and beverage products. Tast...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR-END 2008 FINANCIAL RESULTS
...mpany. "Sucralose is a widely used high-intensity sweetener and we believe Firmenich has the ability to drive ... for S2383, a novel enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose. Taste tests demonstrated that S2383 en...se, a key component of high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener used in numerous food and beverage products. Samp...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES INITIATION OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR NEW BITTER BLOCKERS
...6973, which enables the reduction of up to 50% of the sugar present in product prototypes. In addition, both S2383, an enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose, and the Company's savory flavor ingredients have received Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) regulatory status, which allows commercializa...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2008 FINANCIAL RESULTS
... for S2383, a novel enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose. The GRAS status allows S2383 to be comm...se, a key component of high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener used in numerous food and beverage products. Sampl...aled up for initial taste tests. -- High Potency sweetener Program: The goals of this program are to identify...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES INITIATION OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR NEW SUCROSE ENHANCER
...tilizing Senomyx's patented taste receptor technology, which we are now using to focus on the discovery of enhancers of fructose, another carbohydrate sweetener used in a wide range of consumer products." About Senomyx, Inc. ( http://www.senomyx.com ) Senomyx is a leading company using proprietary taste re...USP Announces Revised Glycerin Monograph
...ens safety nets to prevent serious and potentially fatal health hazards associated with diethylene glycol-contaminated glycerin. Glycerin is used as a sweetener in formulations of many pharmaceutical syrups and in other consumer articles as well, such as toothpaste. Diethylene glycol is a poisonous chemical us...