Cargill to enter market for new sweetener

Food & Drink Weekly, June 5, 2000

Cargill, Inc. and Japan's Hayashibara Company Ltd. signed a letter of intent to evaluate the trehalose (a naturally occurring sugar) market in the Americas to determine the feasibility of Cargill establishing a manufacturing and marketing business for the multi-functional sweetener. As part of this evaluation, Cargill has been granted an exclusive distributorship to market food grade trehalose throughout the Americas, effective immediately.

Cargill will also offer a pharmeceutical grade. Trehalose, about 45 percent as sweet as sucrose, has a potentially large market since it can be used as a component of sweeteners, seasonings, preserved and frozen foods and soft drinks, and as a moisture retainer in cosmetics and a preservative in pharmaceutical products.

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