Sugar Reduction

Sugar Reduction, Naturally

Food manufacturers face a big challenge: maintaining craveability while also reducing sugar content in their products. This requires a fundamental reevaluation of their formulations to ensure that taste satisfaction is not compromised in the sugar reduction process. Offering support for reduced-sugar recipes, yeast extract emerges as a valuable ingredient in these formulation challenges.

In fact, it plays several crucial roles in the process. Yeast extract provides a more rounded and balanced body to the product, and can contribute a rich upfront flavor profile. Additionally, yeast ingredients work synergistically with various sweeteners, neutralizing any lingering off-notes or aftertastes. It’s no surprise that yeast extract intensifies and harmonizes the overall taste profile of your applications as well as serving as a versatile tool to create delicious, reduced-sugar recipes without sacrificing flavor.

Meeting Consumer Demands

Dietary trends and individual health needs have increasingly become focal points in today’s consumer landscape—with concerns ranging from obesity and diabetes to the pursuit of lifestyle diets and wellness trends. Despite these evolving priorities, sweet products continue to reign as symbols of indulgence. The modern consumer refuses to compromise on either front, demanding products that deliver both delicious flavors and nutritional benefits. They yearn for sweet indulgences that not only satisfy their cravings but also support their overall health goals.

Yeast extracts offer a multitude of benefits to food manufacturers and consumers alike, and play a crucial role in the creation of balanced taste profiles in reduced-sugar and no-sugar-added products.

They achieve this in various ways, such as:

Contributing a rich upfront profile when replacing sugar
Neutralizing the lingering off-note aftertaste
Bringing harmony to taste
Intensifying sweet buttery notes
Enhancing caramelized sugar notes
And much more

Cut Sugar, Not Flavor

Reducing sugar in foods and beverages often results in a loss of satisfying flavor consumers have come to expect. As consumers search for healthier and more indulgent alternatives, yeast extract can help intensify and harmonize the overall taste profile of your applications as well as serve as a versatile tool to create delicious, reduced-sugar recipes without sacrificing flavor.

Balanced Flavors

Yeast extracts provide a more rounded and balanced body while reducing sugar content by elevating the overall flavor profile and balancing sweetness with acidity and bitterness.

Healthier Formulations

Yeast extracts allow you to formulate great tasting reduced-sugar foods and beverages.

Masking Off-Notes

Yeast ingredients work synergistically with alternative sweeteners to deliver better taste complexity and to neutralize undesirable tastes like bitterness and metallic off-notes.

Yeast Extract: A Valuable Ingredient in Sugar Reduction

Biospringer Culinary Center’s expertise in food formulation and yeast extracts can support the development of reduced-sugar foods and beverages , without compromising on taste.

Fruit, Sport, Non-Alcoholic, and Other Beverages
Yogurts, Ice Creams, Smoothies, and Dairy Products
Cookies, Cakes, and Other Sweet Baked Goods
Barbecue, Teriyaki, and Other Sauces
Salad Dressings and Marinades
Snacks
Protein and Breakfast Bars
Soups and Ready Meals

Product Ranges Dedicated to Sugar Reduction

Unleash the full potential of flavor with our wide range of yeast-based solutions designed to improve the taste experience and bring a great variety of notes—from base to top, from savory to sweet, from bold to subtle—for more engaging taste profiles.

Springer^® Reveal — Intensifies sweet notes which enables sugar reduction.

Springer^® Umami —maintains the intensity of the overall flavor profile which is often compromised in low or reduced sugar formulations.

Springer^® Mask — Masks bitter, metallic and/or licorice off-notes and cuts aftertaste brought by alternative sweeteners.

Global Perspective, Local Expertise

The Biospringer Culinary Center network was established to assist customers with food and beverage recipes using yeast ingredients. Our experienced food technologists and culinary team provide tailored solutions and recommendations, guided by their strong understanding of taste improvement.

In the U.S., our Culinary Center is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where you will find:

Product development support
Combined knowledge of your business and our expertise
Customized solutions and recommendations

Contact a member of our experienced and dedicated sales team to get started on your next consumer-focused product!

Give it a try!

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