Scientists say tagatose is 92 percent as sweet as table sugar and has about a third as many calories. “Generally recognized ...

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It ...

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Unlike many sugar substitutes, tagatose works as a “bulk sweetener.” That means it can replace sugar not only for sweetness, but also for texture in cooking and baking. It even browns like sugar when ...

Tagatose acts almost exactly like sugar—offering sweetness, bulk and texture in baked goods—and is created with the help of slime mold.

Engineers have developed a new way to produce tagatose, a low-calorie sugar, using engineered bacteria and cheap glucose ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

In the baking section of the supermarket, at your local coffee shop, or on packaged food ingredient labels, you’ll see coconut, turbinado, agave, and a variety of other sugars alongside regular white ...

WARNINGS ABOUT EATING TOO MUCH SUGAR HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS, BUT MANY OF US FIND IT HARD TO SATISFY OUR SWEET TOOTH WITHOUT IT. CONSUMER REPORTS PUT SUGARS THAT CLAIM TO BE NATURAL AND POTENTIALLY ...