naturfoods™ - new natural african sweetener could rival commercially favoured chemicals like aspartame and sucralose
A recent post in Nutra Ingredients USA reports that “a new plant-derived high intensity sweetener is set to hit the market worldwide, emerging as what could be the first natural sweetener to rival artificial counterparts such as aspartame and sucralose.
Brazzein, which is derived from a plant native to Africa, will be marketed globally under the brand name Cweet. The product is touted as being 1,000 times sweeter than cane sugar on a weight basis.
According to Natur Research Ingredients, the Californian company that has gained exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute the sweetener, scientists and the sweetener community have long been aware of brazzein’s potential, but attempts to commercialize it as a sweetener have so far failed because of the lack of a practical manufacturing process to bring the product to market.
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November 20, 2007 at 3:49 am
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