Why we need (urgently) a sugar substitute
Science has already managed to create the first healthy candies. The challenge now? Find a new sugar that does not disappoint the most greedy…A supervisor inspects the huge sacks of sugar that come out every day from a warehouse and help to supply a demand of 100 g per capita daily.
The Miraculous berries
Japanese scientists want to produce the berry molecule, the Miraculina, through genetically modified tomato plants and take advantage of their sweet potential.
Amorphous but intense
Structured sugar spray-dried, under the microscope. Compared to the common sugar, it allows to appreciate all its flavor when ingesting a minimum amount.
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Lab Stomach
Its technical name is ‘ Digester ‘ and it is in the Aina Food Technology Centre. They follow all phases of the digestive process.
White chocolate bars with a new sugar formula
This is the new product that they have made in Nestlé. They have modified the sugar structure so that it dissolves quickly in the tongue and we can perceive the same sweetness, but faster and with less amount of glucose. It has applied this process to its Milkybar Wowsomes, some bars that as explained have 30% less sugar and no sweetener or plant extract. We’ll have to see what the health authorities say about it. For now, promise.
The new lump face
Scientists from the Nestlé Research Center Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, show hollow sugar crystals instead of solids that have just been achieved.
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What do we like the marmalades?
Although biochemically they are the same, the sugar of the marmalades does not have the same composition nor is digested in the same way in the organism that the fructose naturally present in the fruit when we consume it whole. The one that contains this dessert goes directly to the liver and it turns it into fat, in the form of triglycerides, neither are the lighter versions, almost identical to the traditional ones in calories, fats, hydrates, salt and proteins.
