Sugar reduction
Innovate with sweet taste and full functionality
Creating indulgent taste without the sugar
With 76% of global consumers saying that limiting sugar intake is important for their health,1 food and beverage brands must prioritize solutions for sugar substitutes that don’t negatively affect taste, texture and stability. What’s more, consumers are also holding brands more accountable for sustainability, with 66% believing that brands should be doing more to protect the planet.2
Ingredion helps manufacturers meet both challenges head-on with the applications know-how and a comprehensive sugar alternatives portfolio that allows manufacturers to create market-winning reduced sugar and no-sugar-added products quickly — and with just-right taste, texture and label appeal.
Add a finishing touch to taste with FMPs
To improve taste while solving better-for-you challenges, Ingredion’s consultative flavor enhancement service offers a full portfolio of flavorings with modifying properties (FMPs). FMPs fall under natural flavor declarations and are powerful ingredients in any formulator’s playbook — helping to mask off-notes, highlight natural flavors or enhance saltiness with less sodium.
Put taste on top
Discover our full capabilities for improving taste, finding flavor synergies and solving for better-for-you product challenges across any formulation need.
Sugar reduction resources
Explore the resources below and connect with our experts to solve any sugar reduction challenge.
Explore our sweetener portfolio
Learn about Ingredion’s full spectrum of sweetener solutions and sugar substitutes, including clean label and sustainable stevia, low-sugar syrups, rare-sugar allulose and fully nutritive traditional sweeteners.
Challenges of reducing sugar
Have a sugar reduction or sweetener challenge to solve? Our expertise and tools for formulations, taste and sensory science offer revolutionary ways to hit your targets and accelerate growth across categories.
Naturally sweet Reb M stevia is nearly identical to sugar
When sweetness can’t be sacrificed, Reb M shines through. An intensely sweet ingredient occurring naturally in the stevia leaf with zero calories and a nearly identical taste profile to sugar, Reb M lets consumers have their cake and eat it, too (without the sugar, of course).
Let’s make your goals a reality
As experts in taste, texture and sensory science, Ingredion can help you make your brands healthier while still delivering the same eating experience your consumers love.
1Ingredion proprietary research, Sugar Reduction Insights Program Power BI Dashboard, 2022
2The road to sustainability, FMCG Gurus, 2022