Advantame - 'The Next Generation Sweetener'

Sweeteners/ Sugar Substitutes are used to impart sweet taste to food products without much calorie contribution. These are generally used for the Diabetic people, calorie conscious citizens. Some of them are Saccharine, Sucralose, Aspartame, Stevia, Cyclamate etc..

But, after clinical studies, it was proved that many of these artificial sweeteners are carcinogenic and some can be harmful to our kidneys. 

So in this need of hour, Ajinomoto came with the 'Next Generation Sweetener.'

Advantame is an exciting new ultrahigh potency sweetener from Ajinomoto. Advantame is about 20,000 times sweeter than sucrose and has a clean sweet sugar-like taste.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Advantame, an innovative new sweetener, for general use in foods and beverages. Due to its excellent taste and functionality along with very low cost in use, advantame can be used to partially replace sugar, high fructose corn syrup or other high potency sweeteners. Since advantame blends well with caloric and non-caloric sweeteners, it provides food and beverage companies with an opportunity to reduce calories and manage their sweetness costs. Advantame extends sweetness duration in chewing gum and improves the sweetness profile of many confections. Maintaining the same sweet taste profile with less caloric sweetener can now be achieved with Advantame.

Advantame is also FEMA GRAS approved (FEMA #: 4716) as an artificial flavor. The flavors of Dairy drinks, Frozen Desserts, Beverages, and Chewing Gum can be enhanced with low levels of Advantame.

Reference: http://www.advantame.com/

What is the difference between Drying and Dehydration?

Generally, we use both the terms interchangeably.

Sometimes, it is mentioned that the process of removal of moisture in controlled manner is dehydration and if uncontrolled then it is drying.

or

Removal of moisture by natural process like with sun rays then it is drying and if done with machines then dehydration..    and many more...


But, as per the words tell us,

We can say that

Drying is the process in which we make the product dry irrespective of its solvent like if we are drying any fruit then it is removal of moisture (water which is solvent here) and if we are removing other solvent like alcohol from solution then also we can call this process as drying.

And the word Dehydration contains hydra means related to water. So, Dehydration means in particular removal of water or moisture .

Again, it is not the full proof difference and don't have any reference, so we can use these words interchangeably !!!

Top 10 Food Processing Industries in the world

As per data available on the companies websites and financial reports released by companies, top 10 companies on the basis of net sales are as follows,

10. ConAgra Foods Inc.

ConAgra Foods Inc. is the manufacturer behind a host of well-known brands with household names, from Chef Boyardee and Rosarita canned goods to licensed frozen products from P.F. Chang’s and Marie Callender’s. Combined, these products brought ConAgra net sales of $13.3 billion in 2012.

9. Kellogg Company

In its 2012 fiscal year Kellogg Company saw net sales of $14.2 billion, its highest in more than five years, an achievement the company attributes in no small part to joint ventures in China as well as its acquisition of Pringles.

8. General Mills

General Mills was able to increase its net sales substantially over its 2012 fiscal year, for a total of $16.7 billion. While $10.5 billion of that was in U.S. domestic sales, with the brand’s Big G Cereals sector accounting for 23%, General Mills is also strengthening its market share overseas in Europe and Asia.

7. Kraft Foods Group

It has been an interesting year for Kraft Foods Group – it’s been less than a year since the division spun off as a primarily North American business with a focus on convenience deli and snack brands like Velveeta, Oscar Mayer, and its iconic eponymous Kraft Singles and Macaroni and Cheese. Despite the tumult, Kraft Foods Group still saw net revenue of $18.3 billion in 2012.

6. Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods holds some enviable titles in the food manufacturing world – Meat and Poultry gave it the top slot on its Top 100 of 2013, and it’s not hard to see why. Between its numerous assets including its own branded consumer products and its clout as the exclusive chicken supplier to franchise operations like Yum! Brands and McDonald’s, Tyson Foods brought in revenue of $33.2 billion last year.

5. Mondelēz International

It’s been a huge year for Mondelēz International, the newly minted global snack company formed after Kraft Foods split into two different entities. With its global reach and brands like Oreo and Cadbury, Mondelēz was able to pull ahead of Kraft Foods Group with 2012’s net revenue at $35 billion.

4. JBS SA

Around the world, JBS is synonymous with beef. The Sao Paulo-based food processing company is the largest of its kind with plants in Brazil, Argentina, Australia and the United States to produce fresh and frozen beef, chicken, and pork products for the retail and foodservice sectors. The multinational brand reported revenue of R$ 76 billion (USD $38.5 billion) in the 2012 fiscal year.

3. PepsiCo

PepsiCo is a lot more than just soda: the company is also home to a wealth of global main brands including Quaker Foods, Walker’s Crisps, and everything under the Frito-Lay corn and potato chip empire from Fritos to, well, Lay’s. By the end of its 2012 fiscal year, PepsiCo announced net revenue of $65.5 billion.

2. Nestlé SA

As everyone ought to know by now, Switzerland-based Nestlé SA is a whole lot more than just chocolate bars. From Nescafé and Nespresso coffee brands to dairy products like Dreyer’s Ice Cream and Haagen-Dazs to its proprietary bottled water brands, it’s Nestlé’s formidable stable of brand names that helped it reach $96.8 billion in net revenue for 2012.  

1. CARGILL INC.

Consumers might not go into a grocery store and buy a Cargill-branded product, but the odds are good that something in their grocery basket got its start in a Cargill factory. From malts for the brewing industry to oils and shortenings and value-added meat products for the foodservice industry to hydrocolloids and salts and starches to keep convenience foods fresh, the sheer amount of products manufactured by Cargill for a worldwide market is almost staggering. Cargill also keeps its supply chain close by managing its own transport and shipping arm, and cyclically supports its own suppliers by offering a range of livestock feed for every type of farm from beef cattle to dairy cattle to aquaculture. Just having a hand in so many sectors would be explanation enough for Cargill winning a spot on this Top Ten, but the company has also had a banner year – in the press release for its 2012 year-end report, Cargill chairman and CEO Greg Page noted that its food ingredients group saw its third year in a row of record earnings and was by far the largest contributor to the year’s earnings. In total, Cargill Inc. recorded consolidated revenues of $133.9 billion in 2012. 

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