Barry Callebaut first to launch chocolate with all the sweetness entirely from fruits

Barry Callebaut AG, Zürich, presents its latest innovation at FIE, the world’s leading food ingredients exhibition in Paris (Hall 2, Booth B 41): Sweet by Fruits™, the first chocolate with all the sweetness entirely from fruits. This chocolate is sweetened by all natural fruit sugars, derived entirely from fruits. It functions as an alternative sweetening solution, thus replacing the refined sugar in chocolate.

“We are very excited to launch Sweet by Fruits™, the first chocolate on the market with only sugars 100% derived from fruits”, stresses Hans Vriens, Chief Innovation Officer at Barry Callebaut. “This chocolate does not contain any added refined sugar and no added artificial sweeteners. It is made from selected cocoa and sweetened by sugars from fruits such as apples and grapes without compromising in the exquisite taste of our high-quality chocolate”.

Sweet by Fruits™ is the first chocolate that combines the entire and complex sugar profile of selected fruit and thus forms an answer to the increasing demands for chocolate with ingredients from natural sources, and also excludes potential side effects of some other alternative sweetening solutions. Fruits contain by nature different sugars such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, polyols and complex sugars. Whereas for existing fructose chocolate the fructose is being isolated, and purified, Sweet by Fruits™ uses the entire sugar profile of the selected fruits.

Next to Sweet by Fruits™, Barry Callebaut will also present other sweetener solutions, such as its chocolate sweetened with Stevia extract at the company’s booth at the FIE. With the EU approval on November 12th, 2011, Barry Callebaut is now also offering towards European food manufacturers the sweetness extracted from Stevia leafs in chocolate with no added sugars.

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