Sweeteners

Innovative Technologies for Sweetener Production

Natural sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup, starch, cane sugar or stevia, are found naturally in fresh foods or plants while artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, aspartame or saccharin, are chemically manufactured molecules. The manufacture of these sweeteners may require numerous process steps such as wet milling, liquefaction/saccharification, clarification/filtration, decolorization, ion exchange, and concentration, and thus need effective management of the processes to economically produce a satisfactory and consistent quality final product. Upstream extraction processes will require high solids filtration technologies while downstream, many natural and synthetic sweeteners require purification to remove color, turbidity and undesirable taste and odor. Graver Technologies offers manufacturers of sweeteners, as well as food and beverage producers, a range absorbent and filtration technologies to economically produce a product that meets sensory requirements for the consumer while complying with health and safety regulations.