Insight layer

What's inside the sweet?

Sugar does more than taste sweet. It also fills volume, holds water and shapes texture. When it is reduced or replaced, other ingredients have to take over those jobs. This is what that looks like.

The system

Four jobs sugar normally does

Sweetening

What creates the sweet taste when sugar is reduced or replaced.

Structure & Fibre

What holds the product together and carries fibre.

Bulk

What replaces the physical volume that sugar normally provides.

Texture

What creates bite, chew, crispness or softness.

Fat phase

The fats that carry flavour, melt and gloss.

Mouthfeel

How the product feels and releases in the mouth.

Sureka explains. It does not score, rank or judge products.

Sureka ingredient insight

What's inside?

Explore how ingredients influence sweetness, bulk, texture and processing in real products.

SweetnessBulkTextureViscosityMouthfeelFreezing behaviourProcessabilityFibresPolyolsHigh-intensity sweeteners

The same insight layer is being extended step by step to Sureka Professional bases and Sureka Sweet systems. No ingredient is scored, ranked or labelled good or bad, and nothing here is medical advice.

Library

Ingredients used across the range

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Each ingredient opens a short explanation with an external reference