Roquette Launches SweetPearl Sweetening Solution

Naturally sweet, SweetPearl provides the foundation for product innovation, improves nutritional value and intensifies flavour, all without any major change in recipe or manufacturing process.

03/02/09 Roquette is using a new marketing concept for its maltitol ingredient called SweetPearl. According to the company, today’s consumers demand not only high levels of quality and eating pleasure from their food – they also expect it to safeguard their health. SweetPearl is a bulk sweetener produced from naturally-occurring compounds in wheat and maize, both of which are renewable sources. Naturally sweet, SweetPearl provides the foundation for product innovation, improves nutritional value and intensifies flavour, all without any major change in recipe or manufacturing process.

SweetPearl is dedicated to food applications, whatever the specification:

Chocolate creation: Adding innovation
- SweetPearl is the ideal partner to inspire creativity and innovation, thanks to the easy way it adapts to any manufacturing process, whatever the chocolate product or flavour requirement. Moreover, it avoids the need for additional fats and flavouring.

- For smooth, subtle, sweet, creamy chocolates, SweetPearl offers unlimited possibilities that will reveal a  product’s inherent aromas and character. Together with high texture performance, that’s why SweetPearl chocolates are consumer favourites – and approved by leading chefs.

“We find inspiration all around us, in a discussion, in a shop window, on visiting a museum… you have to open up to the world. I never stop expressing the profound longing to please others through my creations, just the desire to create emotions and the generosity of giving enjoyment. In order to succeed in this and aspire to perfection, you need to have the best products on the market: with maturity and experience, I have been able to develop my palate and recognise excellence – this is when I discovered SweetPearl. A pleasure to use, SweetPearl is worked exactly like sugar with the added plus of its nutritional benefits,” Christophe Michalak, Winner of the World Pastry Cup 2005.

- SweetPearl also helps to obtain all the benefits of chocolate, like magnesium and polyphenols, with a reduction in sugars, calories and glycaemic response. SweetPearl enables up to 100% reduction in sugars and is safe for teeth.

Cereals in baking: Releasing potential
- SweetPearl unleashes all the nutritional goodness of cereals – e g, energy, fibre, etc – while reducing sugars, enabling it to offer nutritional optimization that fully meets the demands of international public health organizations.

- Easy to adapt to any manufacturing process, SweetPearl is an ideal source of creativity, readily adapting to recipes and consumer preferences.

- SweetPearl also helps reveal the flavours of cereals and, with its own high taste and texture performance, opens up a new universe for the taste buds.

Chewing gum and confectionery coatings: long-lasting crunchiness
- SweetPearl coating offers long-lasting crunchiness whatever the conditions. This offers a wide range of innovative textures, such as the combination of a crunchy coating on an extremely soft centre – an exciting two-fold sensory experience. SweetPearl coatings mean sustained flavour-release and enhanced fruit flavours.

- SweetPearl means appetizing and crunchy dragées, with perfect shapes and brilliant colours at all times – set your imagination free!

- SweetPearl is safe for teeth.

More than a product, SweetPearl is also a tailor-made ROQUETTE service to the industry, offering recipes, state-of-the-art technologies and product development assistance for each of your food innovations. ROQUETTE is the world market leader in the production of health ingredients derived from cereals, and the world’s largest and most experienced producer of maltitol.