Elaboration of a natural sweetener using Erythritol/Stevia

Abstract The food industry always searches for innovation, product improvement, quality and customer satisfaction. In relation to sweeteners, this search had an expressive increase in recent times due to the increase of diseases caused by the excessive consumption of sugar. Most tabletop sweeteners marketed in Brazil have bulking agents with characteristics not appreciated by consumers, substances that can cause intolerance such as lactose or caloric products such as maltodextrin (4 kcal/g). Considering this problem, the aim of the research was to develop a natural sweetener, without contraind...