Sweetener + Sweetener Enhances the Equation

1+1=3. If you arrived at that conclusion in elementary school, you would have had your knuckles rapped. Or at least you wouldn’t have gotten that gold star. But that equation has become a cornerstone when formulating with sweetener blends today.

Of course, I’m talking about synergy, which can be defined as occurring when the sweetness of a mixture of sweeteners is greater than the sum of their respective, individual sweetness intensities. Blending sweeteners to achieve that property has become a …