Dolcia Prima has varied applications across the food and drinks industries, Tate and Lyle said.
Tate & Lyle has launched a new low-calorie sugar that performed equally as well as full-calorie alternatives during taste testing.
The company’s Dolcia Prima-branded allulose is a low-calorie, naturally occuring sugar that exists in wheat and some fruits, “set to transform the way the food and beverage industry develops low- or reduced-calorie products,” it said.
The sugar producer added: “Tate & Lyle’s Dolcia Prima delivers the satisfying mouthfeel and sweetness of table sugar, but contains 90% fewer calories, so food and beverage manufacturers are expected to be able to significantly reduce the calories in products while maintaining the same taste and enjoyment of sugar that consumers demand.”
Dolcia Prima is 70% as sweet as sucrose and has the same temporal taste profile, which means it provides a clean, sweet taste as well as the functionality of sugar.
Abigail Storms, vice president of platform management for sweeteners for Tate & Lyle, said: “One of the biggest challenges our industry faces is reducing calories while maintaining the taste experience consumers expect from their favourite foods and beverages. Now food and beverage manufacturers can contribute to this public health challenge by using Dolcia Prima low-calorie sugar. Working with Dolcia Prima, our culinary teams have learned that it is possible to provide consumers with products with all the taste, all the mouthfeel and all the texture they expect, but without all the calories. In taste trials, consumers ranked low-calorie versions of foods made with Dolcia Prima equally with the full-calorie versions.”
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