Sweetening solution

7 February 2012 – New from Beneo, is a chewing gum concept which, for the first time, features Beneo’s palatinose (isomaltulose) combined with stevia. By combining Beneo’s functional bulk sweeteners with stevia, a range of nutritional and health benefits can be achieved without compromising on the taste and mouthfeel of the end product. The ingredient combination demonstrates a sugar like sweetness successfully masking the liquorice like aftertaste sometimes associated with stevia. With the bubble gum market growing and counting for 12.2% of the total chewing gum market in value worldwide (Euromonitor 2011) and product launches with stevia more than tripling worldwide in 2010/11 according to Mintel, the natural progression is the combination of the benefits of stevia with the nutritional and technical benefits of Beneo’s toothfriendly sugar, palatinose.

Palatinose can be processed like sucrose. Storage tests have shown that both the texture of the core and crunch are similar to that of sucrose chewing gums. In contrast to sucrose, however, palatinose is low glyceamic and toothfriendly. Its slow dissolution kinetics help to release flavours over a longer period of time and its very low hygroscopicity enhances the gum’s shelf life. In addition, using palatinose in chewing gum retains the core’s shape immediately whilst the cores in other gums need to be stored for a given amount of time to deliver similar results.

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