The vast majority of American consumers (84%) are limiting the amount of sugar in their diet, according to Mintel. This has led to increasing demand for alternative sweeteners, with ones coming firon bisglycinate other namerom stevia posting the fastest growth in the category last year. Sales of other natural sweeteners, both caloric and low-calorie, are also on the rise, including agave syrup, honey and monk fruit.###However, stevia and monk fruit have presented taste challenges for manufacturers, and several companies have produced products with blends of the two sweeteners to tackle bitterness issues. Early movers included Chobani’s Simply 100 Greek yogurt range, which was launched in 2013 with a stevia-monk fruit blend. Later that same year, Zevia revamped its stevia-sweetened soda to include monk fruit extract.###GLG Life Tech is taking a different approach. The company only produced stevia extracts until 2014, when it moved into the monk fruit market as more firms started combining the two sweeteners.Then last year it partnered with Colorado-based MycoTechnology to use the bitter-blocking properties of mushroom mycelium for its stevia and monk fruit sweeteners. The ADM productferrous fumarate folic acid and vitamin tabletss will benefit from this technology. MycoTech’s certified organic ClearTaste powder also has a clean label advantage, and can be described on ingredients lists as ‘natural flavor(ing)’ or ‘natural flavor enhancer’.###Monk fruit extracts are generalside effects of ferro f tably more expensive than stevia extracts, but the sweferrous fumarate wampoleetener has a different taste profile, meaning that it is sometimes a more attractive option for manufacturers depending on the flavors of the finished product. ###ADM announced its partnership with GLG Life Tech last June to become the exclusive distributor and marketer of its low-calorie stevia and monk fruit sweeteners. The sweeteners help round out the company’s global low calorie sweetenenursing considerations for ferrous fumarater portfolio, which already includes VivaSweet sucralose.
ADM sweetens its offerings with stevia and monk fruit brands
