72% of consumers are trying to limit or avoid sugar.* Partner with Cargill to satisfy their appetite for great-tasting products with less sugar – and maximum delight.
Sugar reduction resource center
With one of the industry's most comprehensive ingredient portfolios, plus skilled R&D experts focused on formulating with less sugar, we can help you meet your goals for sugar content and sensory experience.
Solving for sugar reduction in supplements
With the majority of supplement users seeking to maintain their health – and gummies a popular delivery method – high sugar content can be a disconnect. Cargill has a full sugar-reduction toolkit.
Food Technology Transformation
With details about food’s processing, sourcing and sustainability at consumers’ fingertips, opportunity is ripe for brands that push the technological envelope.
Subtleties in Sugar Reduction
Post-pandemic resolutions and emerging research are heightening concerns about sugars in the diet. Discover the latest solutions for sweet taste and a label-friendly seal of approval.
Sustainable Sweetness
Proprietary research shows that sustainability claims are carrying ever-more weight in purchase decisions. Learn how Cargill's multifaceted approach to sustainable sweeteners can help you win with consumers.
Exploring the Science of Sweet
Get a glimpse into the complex and nuanced science of sweetness: sugar's many roles in a formula, consumer sensory perceptions and strategic approaches to building back these properties when reducing sugar.
Application-specific expertise
From bulking to browning, mouthfeel to freezing-point depression, sugar performs a range of functions beyond sweetness. Cargill technical experts have the skills and resources to build back these capabilities with less sugar.
Bakery
Reducing Sugar & Salt
When it comes to sugar and salt, snack makers are taking to heart "everything in moderation."
Beverages
Big demand for zero-calorie beverages
From soft drinks to seltzers, health-minded consumers are increasingly reaching for refreshment without added sugars. Learn what's driving its double-digit growth.
Reduced-Sugar Chocolate Beverages
It's possible to create surprisingly indulgent chocolate beverages with significantly less sugar. Cargill's expertise and ingredients can help you create delicious chocolaty drinks your consumers will love.
Understanding the "Sober Curious" Consumer
Consumers across all age groups are dialing back their alcohol intake. Learn what’s behind the “sober curious” movement – and how to tap into it.
Label-friendly stevia sweeteners offer advantages in beverage formulations
Reducing sugar is at the heart of new product development and brand reformulations across the beverage industry. Cargill continues to be at the forefront of innovation to address this groundswell of demand for label-friendly solutions.
Confectionery
Finding Chocolate's Sweet Spot
There has long been room for improvement in the reduced-sugar chocolate space. Learn how Cargill's most-advanced sweetener system closes the gap with a creamier, more indulgent chocolate experience and fewer off-notes.
Sugar Reduction in Confectionery
It takes a new mindset among brands and formulators to experiment in this quickly evolving category.
Dairy
Sugar Reduction in the Dairy Case
Consumer attitudes toward sugar have changed dramatically over the past decade.
Rich Texture in Frozen Desserts
Textural attributes are key for decadent, reduced sugar frozen desserts.
Cut the Sugar - Not the Satisfaction
Reduced-sugar frozen dairy treats that keep consumers coming back for more.
Snacks
Shoppers Demand Reduced Sugar Snacks
Products with reduced-sugar claims are driving growth in the snack industry.
QA: Raising the Bar on Label-friendly Sugar Reduction
Cargill food scientist Chad Rieschl, a 20-veteran of the snack bar industry, offers a few insights into formulating for the label-conscious consumer.
Sugar reduction solutions
Whether you're hoping for a modest reduction in added sugars, or want to go all the way to zero, Cargill offers a full sugar reduction toolkit.
EverSweet® + ClearFlo™
Our single-ingredient, stevia sweetener and natural flavor fully utilizes stevia sweeteners' sugar reduction potential without bitterness or licorice notes.
EverSweet® Stevia Sweetener
Next-generation stevia sweetener delivers the same sweetness is found in the stevia leaf, while producing it more sustainably via fermentation.
Truvia® Stevia Leaf Extract
A versatile, natural, zero-calorie sweetener with a clean, sweet, sugar-like taste – and consistent quality from lot to lot.
ViaTech® Stevia Leaf Extract
Our proprietary taste-prediction model can optimize steviol glycosides – the best-tasting parts of the leaf – for sugar reductions of 50%+.
Zerose® Erythritol Sweetener
A natural*, zero-calorie bulk sweetener that looks and tastes like sugar, complements high-intensity sweeteners and supports oral health.
Supporting ingredients
Partnering with Cargill affords you a holistic approach to sugar reduction: finding the optimal sweetness solution, plus leveraging complementary ingredients to enhance mouthfeel, viscosity and provide desired functionality in your finished product.
Starches & Derivatives
Cargill's robust starch portfolio includes options from a range of botanical sources to meet your needs for texture, function and budget.
Hydrocolloids
Pectin, carrageenan and xanthan gum can enhance texture and viscosity, prevent separation and stabilize flavors.
Polyol Sweeteners
These sugar alcohols can provide complementary sweetness, add body and bulk solids, mask off-flavors and manage moisture.
Soluble Corn Fiber
A label-friendly bulking agent with half the calories of sugar, no impact to taste/texture and the nutritional benefits of dietary fiber.
Cargill innovation in sugar reduction
Agricultural Stevia Program Sustainability Recognized
Cargill's agricultural stevia program became the first in the industry to be benchmarked at Silver level by SAI Platform Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) 3.0. Learn about our journey.
Evidence for erythritol oral health benefits
In foods and beverages, erythritol can be a valuable tool for reducing sugar and calories.
Established research has also shown that it offers several mechanisms for improving oral care.
FDA defines "sugar reduction" as a reduction of 25% or greater.
* International Food Information Council (IFIC) Food & Health Survey, 2023.
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