Sugar reduction

Reduce sugar while maintaining taste and texture  

Sugar reduction is a macro trend that’s here to stay, however taste and texture cannot be sacrificed. Deliver the unique taste and texture of juice drinks, without all the sugar. Create moist, chewy cookies or creamy indulgent ice creams without the guilt associated with full-sugar varieties. 

Today’s health-conscious consumers are searching for the same sweetness and texture they experience in products containing less sugar and fewer calories. But it takes more than sweetness to meet the growing demand for reduced-sugar products, low-sugar products and no-sugar products that deliver the perfect taste, texture and healthier appeal.

At Ingredion, we offer holistic solutions to help make your sweetness goals a reality. When you work with us, you’ll benefit from our formulation expertise and broad portfolio of in-demand sweeteners and texturizers, to create a low-sugar product that ticks all the right boxes. Through our seamless communication and collaboration, you can provide consumers their ideal level of sweetness with less sugar, fewer calories, and the same indulgent textures they know and love. 

You can achieve just-right sweetness and texture in your reduced-sugar products.  Our Ingredion ANZ Idea Labs® innovation centere in Sydney offers a proven record of speed and agility in prototyping and product launches, so you can develop new products quickly — with unparalleled efficiency and cost savings.

Create reduced sugar products that taste like full-sugar versions

Achieving the sweet taste consumers expect when reducing sugar in your formulations presents many challenges. Rely on Ingredion’s industry-changing ingredient solutions and formulation expertise to help you efficiently replace some or all of the sugar in your foods and beverages.

Get just-right sweetness that fits your product and formulation goals for reduced-sugar products, low- sugar products and no-sugar products. From 95% pure Bio Reb M 90 (PCS-3018) leaf-based stevia to stevia systems that optimize taste and cost to Reb A stevia sweeteners ranging from 50 to 97% purity — Ingredion has the solutions you need to help you achieve your sugar reduction target.

Ingredion has acquired 80% of PURECIRCE, which means our sweetness expertise is global and we can offer many customised and cost optimised solutions. We now have a flavour modulator range where we can offer salt & sugar reduction, flavour enhancement and synergies and enable you to potentially have some cost savings along the way.

Please reach out to our ANZ team to find out more.

Explore our stevia sweeteners with PureCircle

PureCircle is a producer and innovator in the area of stevia sweeteners for the food and beverage industry.

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Build back texture

We have what you need to help you achieve your desired sweetness and texture parameters. Using our lines of starches, non-caloric sweeteners, polyols, gums and fibres, Ingredion can help you build back the texture and mouthfeel that’s often lost after sugar reduction. Our formulation expertise, and teams of technical and market experts make it easy for you to transform your better-for-you products into all-time favourites. 

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Featured ingredients for reducing sugar

Explore Ingredion’s functional build-back and sweetener portfolio or contact our experts for help finding a solution for your specific application.

PureCircle™ Reb M stevia

PureCircle™ Reb M stevia

Searching for sweetness without compromise? The Reb M molecule is intensely sweet ingredient occurring naturally in the stevia leaf with zero calories and a nearly identical taste profile to sugar.

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Flavours with modifying properties

Flavours with modifying properties

Flavours with modifying properties, or FMPs, fall under natural flavour declarations and are powerful ingredients frequently used for flavour enhancing, masking and balancing in better-for-you formulations. Specific flavour modulators can also help reduce salt by over 25%.

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Sigma D

Sigma D

Sigma D is a great choice for beverage sugar reduction projects where taste and cost optimisation are key. 

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Fermented Sugar Cane Reb M

Fermented Sugar Cane Reb M

Our newest innovation through our JV with Amyris, is a fermented sugar cane Reb M. Suitable for beverages, fruit preparations, bakery products and your sugar reduction projects.

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Sugar-reduced product solutions by category

Ingredion can help overcome sugar reduction challenges in specific categories and applications. Explore the solutions below and find more in our Sugar Reduction Resource Center.

Beverage

Beverage

Find insights and expertise for maintaining sweetness, taste and texture in RTD dairy, coffee and energy drinks.

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Dairy

Dairy

See how we formulate for texture and mouthfeel in reduced-sugar ice cream, yogurt and flavored milks.

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Sports nutrition

Sports nutrition

Position your reduced-sugar sports hydration drink for success with consumer insights and solutions for maintaining sweetness and mouthfeel.

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Bakery

Bakery

Learn how to reduce sugar and rebuild texture in granola and breakfast bars and maintain indulgence in reduced-sugar cookies.

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Where can we help you today?

Contact our experts today to find the right ingredient for your needs.

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