2015-08-10 Beyond Stevia Outline
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Beyond Stevia: Exploring Emerging Plant-Based Sweeteners and Sweetness Modulators Alex Woo, CEO, W2O Food Innovation • Understanding recent advances in sweet taste neuroscience • Exploring the benefits and disadvantages for emerging plant-based high potency sweeteners such as monk fruit and monatin • Examining pros and cons for emerging non/low caloric plant-based bulk sweeteners such as allulose and tagatose • Enhancing sweetness with emerging taste modulators including receptor tech-based PAM and phantom flavors. • Applying crossmodal correspondences to make things even sweeter without any ingredient • Predicting commercial success based on 12 criteria including regulatory approval and cost. 7/23/2015 1 W2O Food Innovation
Transcript of 2015-08-10 Beyond Stevia Outline
W2O Food Innovation
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Beyond Stevia: Exploring Emerging Plant-Based Sweeteners and Sweetness ModulatorsAlex Woo, CEO, W2O Food Innovation
• Understanding recent advances in sweet taste neuroscience• Exploring the benefits and disadvantages for
emerging plant-based high potency sweeteners such as monk fruit and monatin• Examining pros and cons for emerging non/low
caloric plant-based bulk sweeteners such as allulose and tagatose • Enhancing sweetness with emerging taste
modulators including receptor tech-based PAM and phantom flavors.• Applying crossmodal correspondences to make
things even sweeter without any ingredient• Predicting commercial success based on 12 criteria
including regulatory approval and cost.
7/23/2015
