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Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Mar 16,2010

Stevia Promoted for Role in “Calorie Footprint” Reduction

Industry leading manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Unilever and WhiteWave Foods are using stevia to reduce calories while maintaining the taste that consumers enjoy, naturally.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Mar 11,2010

Syral and ETEA Invest in Selby Site

In the first phase, the new plant, which will operate under the joint-venture Sedalcol UK, will focus its production on high quality grain alcohols destined to the UK market, and sold under the Sedalcol brand.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Mar 05,2010

EFSA Concludes Safety of New Sucrose Esters

The Panel considers that there is no reason to believe that the sucrose monoesters of fatty acids per se produced by the new manufacturing process should in any way have biological or toxicological effects different from those of sucrose monoesters of fatty acids produced by the currently-used manufacturing methods.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 26,2010

First Zero-Calorie, All-Natural Fruit Sweetener to be FDA GRAS

The unique zero-calorie sweetness of monk fruit concentrate comes from naturally occurring compounds in the fruit that are up to 300 times sweeter than sugar. This means that just ¼ of a gram of Fruit-Sweetness can replace 8 teaspoons of sugar.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 24,2010

National Starch Food Innovation Creates Partnership in Algeria

National Starch Food Innovation will be showcasing its extensive portfolio of specialty starches at this year’s Djazagro. At the show, a particular focus will be value-adding solutions for sauce, beverage and dairy manufacturers.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 23,2010

Imperial Sugar Company and PureCircle Limited Launch Natural Sweet Ventures

Both Imperial and PureCircle have rich heritages in developing proprietary technologies tied to natural, sweet products. This will provide Natural Sweet customers with flexibility in developing innovative applications.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 23,2010

Tate & Lyle Supports White House Initiative to Combat Childhood Obesity

Tate & Lyle is in a position to help advance the White House’s ‘Let’s Move’ initiative. Not only do we hold strong partnerships with the leading food and beverage manufacturers in the United States, we also have expertise in food science, healthy food formulation and production, and human clinical research.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 10,2010

Tate & Lyle Expands Its Instant Starch Lineup with X-PAND’R 683

Sheeted and formed snacks: X-PAND’R 683 delivers expansion and crispness in a wide range of snack crackers and snack chips containing flours, dried vegetables and potato flakes.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 04,2010

National Starch to Increase European Prices for Tapioca Starch

Due to abnormal weather conditions and the outbreak of an acute mealy bug infestation, tapioca yields in Thailand are expected to decrease by up to 25 per cent in 2009/10.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 03,2010

Corn Products Profits Up 21% in Q4

The three primary contributors to changes in net sales in the fourth-quarter were a positive $60 million from stronger foreign currencies; a positive $48 million from improved volumes; and a negative $49 million from lower price/mix, approximately half of which was related to lower co-product selling prices.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 02,2010

AGRANA Launches Joint Venture in Egypt

AGRANA and Nile Fruits, a group based in Egypt with a significant track record in fruit processing in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, plan to set up a new joint venture company in the first quarter 2010.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 01,2010

Firmenich to Proceed With Senomyx Sucrose Enhancer

“S6973 is a unique flavor ingredient that can help manufacturers provide a significant reduction in the sugar content of their products without compromising on taste. Senomyx is looking forward to working with Firmenich as they begin pre-commercial activities.”

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Feb 01,2010

Yucheng's Dry form Maltitol is Prohibited for Import into the U.S.

Roquette Frères which is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 6,344,591 has obtained a further order in September 2009 from the U.S. District Court directing the United States Customs and Border Protection agency to exclude from entry into the United States any dry form maltitol originating from Yucheng Lujian Biological Co. Ltd.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 28,2010

Tate & Lyle’s Profits to be Marginally Lower

The trading patterns experienced during the first half year have continued, although the Group’s performance in the third quarter was marginally below expectations, before the impact of exchange translation, due principally to lower industrial sales volumes in Food & Industrial Ingredients, Americas.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 28,2010

Stevia Becoming Mainstream, Claims PureCircle

Not surprisingly, the first products with stevia to market were tabletop sweeteners and beverages. But because of its naturally broad appeal, stevia is now making its way into other categories as well.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 26,2010

Sunwin Receives Certificate for the Global Quality and Health Benefits of Its Stevia Extracts in China

Sunwin continues to expand its environmentally-friendly practices beyond those inherent to the process of creating all natural sweetening extracts without the use of chemicals and synthetic materials.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 26,2010

Sweet Success for Sustainable Biofuel Research

Using the plant Arabidopsis, Dr Paul Dupree and his team have found three enzymes responsible for the production of all detectable levels of a type of sugar called glucomannan.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 22,2010

Limagrain Launches New Grade of Bioplastic for Thermoforming

Biolice 50T is the result of the combination of cereal flour and two different biodegradable polyesters compounded by a twin screw extrusion process.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 20,2010

GLG Life Tech Corporation Announces New Sweet Success Line of Stevia Products

The new Sweet Success series will provide an attractive option for food and beverage manufacturers seeking to use stevia sweetening systems to create solutions for their customers in a more cost effective manner.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 20,2010

China Starch Plans Expansion to Increase Production Capacity of Corn Starch and Starch-Based Sweeteners

The proposed expansion would bring growth to the Group, provide a platform for further development and expansion of the Group’s business, increase its overall competitiveness and is in the interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 15,2010

PureCircle Signs Long Term Contract for Expansion of Stevia

The agreement between PureCircle South America SA (PCSA) and CCU underlines the commitment of both parties to the production of proprietary varieties of high quality Stevia.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 15,2010

Südzucker Operating Profit Improves Further in Third Quarter

The substantial growth in the group's consolidated operating profit in the first nine months of the current fiscal year was generated by the sugar, special products and fruit segments.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 14,2010

Redpoint Bio Provides Update on its All-Natural Sweetness Enhancer, RP44

We believe this will enable the development of food and beverage products that require reduced amounts of caloric sweeteners while still retaining the "clean sweet taste" associated with a fully sugared product.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 11,2010

Fenchem to Bring Stevia to US Market

Fenchem now will focus on High purity reb A products with content ranging from 95 to 99%. NeuVia Reb A is extracted from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni with innovative technology.

Starch, Sugar & Sweeteners Jan 08,2010

Zero-Calorie Neotame Sweetener Approved for Use by European Union

Neotame is approved by practically all global regulatory agencies including the United States Food & Drug Administration, JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives), and now also by the European Union.