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Florida Crystals® Celebrates National Organic Month with New Packaging and 100,000 Tons of Organic Compost Milestone

Florida Crystals® Celebrates National Organic Month with New Packaging and 100,000 Tons of Organic Compost Milestone

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Florida Crystals' compost facility is the embodiment of its regenerative philosophy. Already one of the top 10 largest compost facilities in the country, it reached a new milestone, producing 100,000 tons of compost in one season for the first time. The facility, which is integrated into Florida Crystals' sugar milling complex in Pahokee, FL, plays a crucial role in achieving all of the company's five Pillars of Regenerative Agriculture: improve soil health, upcycle byproducts, increase biodiversity, reduce synthetic materials and conserve water.

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Tagatose Becomes First Sweetener And Ingredient To Earn NutraStrong Prebiotic Verified Certification

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Bonumose, Inc., a producer of tagatose, and ASR Group, its distributor, announced that tagatose is also the first ingredient to earn this prebiotic certification.

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Tagatose Earns NutraStrong™ Prebiotic Verified Certification

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Tagatose attained the NutraStrong™ Prebiotic Verified certification.

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Hitting the Sweet Spot

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U.S. shoopers want snack and bakery products that balance sweet taste and better health.

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Precision-Fermented Sweeteners

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Tagatose produced by enzymatic conversion

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Ingredients and Formulating

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Products containing Tagatose are nearly identical to their sugar containing counterparts in taste, appearance, and texture.

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Tagatose finds home in lean labeling

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Despite FDA’s labeling of tagatose as an added sugar, the alternative sweetener’s nutritional and functional benefits continue to generate interest from the food and beverage industry, particularly with lean labels

Collaboration, innovation main themes at IFT First

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Sweetener Development Pushes Past the Headlines

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Product developers’ search for the perfect sugar substitute goes on, and many were on display at this year’s Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT FIRST expo in July.

Tagatose offers alternative to sugar, artificial sweeteners: ASR Group

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James Kappas, vice president of specialty ingredients at ASR Group, spoke with Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery  about tagatose.

ASR Group introduces cost-effective tagatose to market

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The world's largest sugar refiner ASR Group has brought the once-cost-prohibiyive rare sugar tagatose to market through a collaboration with Bonumose.

Ingredient Innovations Sweeten IFT Expo Floor

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The ASR Group, West Palm Beach, Fla., gave presentations on the benefits of tagatose, a rare sugar that is 90% as sweet as sugar.

From the Expo Floor Day 2

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ASR Group showcased their new Tagatose sweetener in an iced tea and granola bar.

Will Tagatose Be the Next Big Sugar Alternative?

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What advantages does tagatose have over traditional sugar and other sweeteners? And which companies produce the rare ingredient? Here’s what you need to know about this promising sugar alternative.

Bonumose Begins Production of Tagatose at New State-of-the-Art Facility

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Charlottesville, VA (January 30, 2023) - ASR Group and Bonumose, Inc. are pleased to announce that tagatose production has commenced at Bonumose’s new commercial production facility and advanced research & development lab. Having developed a proprietary method for producing low-cost tagatose from plant-based starches, Bonumose is at the forefront of using enzymatic processes to make rare sugars at scale.

Bonumose’s Low-Cost Tagatose Process Receives Key Health Agency Approvals, Construction of First Production Facility on Schedule for Spring 2022 Opening

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Bonumose, Inc. announces the achievement of regulatory and food application milestones in the United States and Canada for the low-glycemic, rare sugar tagatose, as the company progresses on time and on schedule for the opening of its first commercial production facility in Spring 2022.