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And No-Calorie Sweetening Ingredients in Promoting Health THE ROLE OF LOW- AND NO-CALORIE SWEETENING INGREDIENTS IN PROMOTING HEALTH Innovating to Meet Nutrition, Health, and Wellness Needs Every Day ® To learn more about Tate & Lyle ingredients and innovations, please visit www.foodnutritionknowledge.info and www.tateandlyle.com. MAKING FOOD EXTRAORDINARY Innovative sweetening ingredients can help reduce calorie content in foods, while meeting consumer taste expectations. LOW- AND NO-CALORIE the AHA has suggested that the found no deleterious impact on food industry needs more innovative measures of glycemic response SWEETENING low- and no-calorie sweeteners, when NNS were consumed INGREDIENTS: ROLE IN bulking ingredients, and sweetness compared to various nutritive CALORIE REDUCTION enhancers to use in food and sources (e.g., sucrose, starch) beverage products.5 An Academy or placebos (e.g., cellulose).8-11 AND HEALTH PROMOTION of Nutrition and Dietetics position Further, a 2010 review paper paper states that “consumers can concluded that consumption of Obesity: A global health concern safely enjoy a range of nutritive and NNS does not affect glycemic Obesity, diabetes, and metabolic NNS when consumed within an response in people with syndrome have become major eating plan that is guided by current diabetes mellitus.12 public health problems as diseases nutrition recommendations as • In terms of overall health, a that are associated with an well as individual health goals and study of more than 9,000 adults imbalance between calorie intake 6 personal preferences.” found that people using NNS and expenditure. According to Several research studies have tended to consume more vitamins the World Health Organization, linked intake of NNS to weight and minerals and eat fewer worldwide obesity has more than management, improved blood calories overall.13 doubled since 1980.1 To curb the glucose control, and better obesity epidemic, balancing calories overall health. consumed and calories expended INNOVATIVE CALORIE is key.2 Authoritative bodies • A meta-analysis of 15 randomized AND SUGAR REDUCTION recommend reducing consumption clinical trials and 9 prospective of excess calories to prevent weight cohort studies evaluated research SOLUTIONS gain and are calling on the food that examined the relationship Taste is a main driver when industry to reduce calorie content between NNS and body weight choosing foods and beverages.14 and portion sizes.1, 3, 4 Innovative and composition. Findings from Research indicates that consumers sweetening ingredients can help the prospective cohort studies show a strong interest in reducing reduce calorie content in foods, showed no association between sugar and calories in their diets, while meeting consumer taste NNS intake and body weight or but ultimately taste drives purchase expectations. fat mass and a small positive decisions.14 A variety of low- and association with BMI; however, no-calorie sweetening ingredients Evidence supports use of low- data from randomized clinical and no-calorie sweeteners can help reduce the amount of trials, which provide the highest calories in food products to varying Leading health organisations quality of evidence for examining degrees without sacrificing taste. acknowledge the value of the potentially causal effects These sweeteners can be utilized in sweeteners to reduce calories of NNS intake, indicate that higher energy foods and beverages as part of an overall healthy diet substituting NNS for regular- to reduce calories and potentially and physical activity regimen. calorie options results in a modest overall energy intake. Tate & Lyle A scientific statement from the weight loss, and that NNS may be develops ingredients that provide American Heart Association (AHA) a useful dietary tool to improve nutrition, health, and wellness and American Diabetes Association compliance with weight loss or solutions including a strong 7 (ADA) concluded non-nutritive weight maintenance plans. portfolio of low- and no-calorie sweeteners (NNS), when used • Choosing NNS can also be helpful sweetening ingredients that the carefully, may aid in reducing in moderating carbohydrate food industry can utilize to reduce total energy intake and assist with intake, which is important for calories in foods and beverages, weight loss/control, while providing blood glucose management. which can provide more options for beneficial effects on related Four randomized trials, varying consumers in their efforts to make 5 metabolic parameters. Further, from 1 to 16 weeks in duration, wise choices on daily energy intake. 2 | SWEETENERS © 2018 Tate & Lyle • www.tateandlyle.com • www.foodnutritionknowledge.info DOLCIA PRIMA® Allulose Stevia Sweeteners Allulose* is a low-calorie Sweet Green Fields and Tate & Lyle sweetening ingredient that exists offer a complete range of innovative in nature and offers the taste and stevia sweeteners* produced texture of sugar without all the from stevia leaf extracts. Stevia calories. Allulose can be found in sweeteners are high-potency, zero- certain fruits and foods including calorie sweeteners of natural origin figs, raisins, molasses, and maple made from the stevia plant that syrup and it can be made from allow for calorie reduction without several sources of carbohydrates. sacrificing taste. Allulose is 70 percent as sweet Sensory data shows that as sugar and can replace sucrose approximately 80% of the (table sugar) or high-fructose corn population is sensitive to bitter syrup (HFCS) to reduce calories. off-notes associated with some Because allulose is less sweet natural, stevia-based sweeteners than sucrose and cannot be used on the market. However, the stevia as a 1:1 replacement, it will likely offerings from Sweet Green Fields be used in combination with other and Tate & Lyle have a substantially sweetening ingredients, such as cleaner aftertaste than other stevia- low-calorie sweeteners or caloric derived sweeteners, allowing higher PUREFRUIT™ Monk Fruit Extract bulk sweeteners. Allulose offers sugar replacement levels without unique benefits: Monk fruit grows on lush vines in sacrificing taste. small farms in the sub-tropical • Very low in calories because it is The sweetness potency of the stevia climate of Asian hillsides, where not metabolized15, 16 sweeteners ranges from about temperate conditions and elevation • Does not raise blood glucose 200–300 times sweeter than sugar, are ideal. PUREFRUIT™ Monk Fruit or insulin levels in healthy depending on the level of sweetness Extract is a sweetener that provides individuals or when consumed by being replaced. Stevia sweeteners natural, great-tasting, zero-calorie people with type 2 diabetes17-19 contribute zero calories and can be sweetness and is extracted from the used to enable calorie and sugar monk fruit. • Modestly reduces postprandial reduction in foods and beverages. glycemic response in people with At around 100-200 times the Stevia sweeteners exhibit good type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and sweetness of sugar, this ingredient stability and are suitable for use in with healthy blood glucose when allows for sugar reduction up to low-pH products such as beverages consumed in combination with 100% in certain foods and beverages. and they have demonstrated other carbohydrates20-22 stability to high temperature PUREFRUIT™ Monk Fruit Extract • Digestively tolerated in healthy processes such as pasteurisation. is appropriate for a wide-range of adults at 30 grams per day23,24 applications, including:* The Sweet Green Fields and • Has non-cariogenic properties25 Tate & Lyle stevia sweetener • Baked goods • Has the functionality of sugar, options are appropriate for a wide- • Beverages range of applications, including:* including caramelization and • Cereals browning; adding bulk and texture • Baked goods to products; and depressing • Confections • Beverages freezing point in frozen products • Dairy • Cereals • Ideal for use in a variety of foods • Desserts, ice cream • Dairy and beverages, including yogurt, • Dressings, sauces ice cream, and baked products* • Dressings, sauces • Nutritional supplements • Blends well with other • Frozen foods • Processed fruits sweeteners for calorie reduction • Processed fruits and vegetables Allulose is generally recognized • Snacks as safe (GRN 400 and 498) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in foods and beverages, which means * Subject to local regulations and market availability. it is safe for people of all ages to consume.26 3 | SWEETENERS © 2018 Tate & Lyle • www.tateandlyle.com • www.foodnutritionknowledge.info SPLENDA® Sucralose NUTRITIONAL IMPACT OF THE USE OF STEVIA In 1976, sucralose was discovered SWEETENERS, PUREFRUIT™ MONK FRUIT EXTRACT, as the result of a joint sweetener ® research project conducted by AND SPLENDA SUCRALOSE Tate & Lyle and Queen Elizabeth In this menu example, simple substitutions with products containing these College in London, UK. SPLENDA® non-nutritive sweeteners could result in a reduction of 235 calories per day.** Sucralose is made from sugar and is a leading zero-calorie sweetener 2,000-CALORIE MENU, WITH STEVIA SWEETENER, ™ that has a sugar-like taste profile. It BASELINE*** PUREFRUIT MONK FRUIT ® has about 600 times the sweetness EXTRACT, AND SPLENDA of sugar and, depending upon SUCRALOSE SUBSTITUTIONS the application, can be used to Breakfast: Breakfast: replace nutritive sweeteners 1 English muffin w/2 tbsp apricot 1 English muffin w/2 tbsp apricot spread spread 1 lg hard-boiled egg such as sugar or glucose syrup. 1 lg hard-boiled egg 1 med banana
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