SWEET, SWEETER, SWEETEST - WHERE ARE WE GOING

Both industrial and commercial considerations will continue the drive to find alternative sweetener systems to sucrose, Difficulties with wi nning approval for new sweeteners are changing the main focus of resea rch efforts from discovering hyperpotent sweeteners to reducing the de fects associated with existing alternatives to sucrose, One potentiall y effective means of achieving this aim is to search for synergistic e ffects in sweetener mixtures, and to investigate the range of qualitie s of such synergistic mixtures in food systems, as reviewed here.