With the rise of health-conscious consumers, brands are aiming to support nutrition goals without just removing sugar from formulations, says James Roza, chief scientific officer at Layn Natural Ingredients. Roza says companies are seeking sweet alternatives that enable positioning products around metabolic health, balanced energy, or overall wellness.

Doris Ip, senior marketing manager at Layn Natural Ingredients, says Layn is spending where sugar reduction matters most to conGrandberry names Yume M as Tate & Lyle’s most meaningful recent sweetener advancement.sumers and is hardest to execute. She says that is in beverages, hydration, and better-for-you foods. Ip notes that each demands a clean label, taste, and regulatory readiness. 

Layn showcased two innovations working in synergy in an iced tea application — its monk fruit decoction and Reb M2, a highly soluble stevia molecule. Its water-extracted monk fruit decoction delivers sweetness at roughly four to five times that of sucrose, and is not considered a novel food in the UK or EU, giving it access to those markets.

Layn Natural Ingredients, Irvine, Calif., uses precision enzymatic conversion that optimizes the transformation of reb A into reb M2. Layn’s enzyme-based ingredient development allows for a more efficient, scalable and sustainable manufacturing process that meets quality, safety and regulatory standards, said Elaine Yu, president of Layn USA Inc.

Layn Natural Ingredients recently rolled out a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) ingredient, alongside the NAD+ precursor Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN). “NMN and NAD are molecules that are critical to cellular energy production, working together to help produce ATP for the cell mitochondria,” explains James Roza, chief scientific officer at the company. 

In this interview, Doris Ip, Senior Marketing Manager at Layn Natural Ingredients, shares how formulators can use traceability, testing, and ingredient transparency to support natural sweeteners claims.  

Suppliers also explored new formats for monk fruit, with Layn Natural Ingredients presenting a gently extracted monk fruit decoction and Manus using precision fermentation to produce a monk fruit sweetener on US soil.  

James Roza, chief scientific officer at Layn Natural Ingredients, adds that personalized products that speak to the needs of individual consumers, are clean label, functional, and convenient, are driving the biggest consumer demand shift in active nutrition.

Layn Natural Ingredients announced it has received FEMA GRAS Approval (No. 5106) for its branded ingredient, SteviUp M2. The next-generation sweetener was developed to deliver a cleaner, more sugar-like taste profile with improved solubility and reduced lingering sweetness compared with conventional steviol glycosides.

Layn Natural Ingredients announced it has received FEMA GRAS Approval (No. 5106) for its branded ingredient, SteviUp M2. The next-generation sweetener was developed to deliver a cleaner, more sugar-like taste profile with improved solubility and reduced lingering sweetness compared with conventional steviol glycosides.