Applications and Benefits
Non-Alcoholic Beverages*
Zerose® erythritol is ideal for low-calorie soft drinks, flavored waters and milks, sports drinks, smoothies, iced teas, frozen beverages and soy-based beverages.
Benefits
- Clean, sugar-like taste
- Works well with high intensity sweeteners
- Enhanced body and mouthfeel
- Optimal freezing point depression
- Excellent heat and acidity characteristics
*Safe for use in energy-reduced flavored (dairy) beverages at a maximum use level of 1.6% as a flavor enhancer.
Confectionery
Zerose® is the only polyol sweetener that allows significant calorie reduction in chocolate with excellent gloss, texture snap and melting characteristics. It helps to mask the aftertaste of high-intensity sweeteners, and the cooling effect is particularly appreciated in mint-flavored chocolate products.
Benefits:
- Clean, sugar-like taste
- Works well with high intensity sweeteners
- Enhanced body and mouthfeel
- Optimal freezing point depression
- Excellent heat and acidity characteristics
Bakery
When compared to sucrose in baking, Zerose® erythritol exhibits different melting behavior, a more compact dough, less color formations, better moisture control and softer baked products.
Benefits
- Great sugar-like taste in combination with intense sweeteners
- Excellent heat and acid stability
- Improved shelf life
- Excellent water activity management
- Enhanced bulk and body
Dairy & Ice Cream
The use of Zerose® erythritol as a bulking agent can support sugar replacement strategies and allow for lower-calorie profiles in many dairy products and frozen desserts such as pudding, yogurt, smoothies, ice cream or sorbet.
Benefits
- Great sugar-like taste in combination with intense sweeteners
- Excellent heat and acid stability
- Improved shelf life
- Excellent water activity management
- Enhanced bulk and body
- Optimal freezing point depression
Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer’s responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer’s product and its use, and (iii) any claims made about the customer’s product, all comply with applicable laws and regulations.