Project
EXTREAMS tEXturizing & Taste from side stREAMS
For more sustainable and healthy food products, sugar reduction is one of the main targets. Sugars are used in a large variety of food products, and are found in large quantities in many product categories. Due to rising health concerns about high sugar intake, the food industry must come up with innovative ways to reduce the amount of added sugars in consumers products. In order to motivate consumers to shift to a sugar reduced diet, EXTREAMS will provide new strategies and product offerings based on clean-label, nutrient rich sugar replacers which fulfil consumers demands in terms of sustainability, naturalness, health and taste.
EXTREAMS aims to achieve breakthroughs in valorising plant-based polysaccharides-rich side streams as natural, clean-label sugar replacers in food applications that are accepted by consumers. Sugars are difficult to replace due to their unique, multiple functionalities and cost-effectiveness. A reverse engineering approach towards functionalization is used by applying scientific know-how on physical and chemical properties of sugars and their effects on the perception of sweetness.