Nutritional study 

First diet-soft-drink to eat less.

Soft drinks are a still the leading beverage segment and soft drink consumption is still high. Nutritionally the soft drinks are under pressure due to supporting weight gain and causing obesity and diabetes due to the high sugar content.

Now a new sugar free soft drink was developed that consumption can lead to increased appetite, less hunger and reduced caloric intake. This was proven in already in a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study at Leatherhead Food Research Center in London, UK.

After the beverage company SINALCO, the ingredient producer TAIYO and the sweetening experts from SWEETHOUSE joining forces to jointly develop new and innovative beverage concepts for the international market since 2018.

This cooperation has already launched these first new innovative beverage concepts at the "Innovation in non-alcoholic beverages" - conference in London.

The new beverages are called “Sunfiber Orange” and “Sunfiber Cola” which area very low-calorie drinks that contain Sunfiber supplied by Taiyo GmbH. Sunfiber is a very special water-soluble dietary fiber made from the Indian Guar Bean. Sunfiber is one of the longest water-soluble dietary fibers in the market. Sunfiber has no taste and does not increase the viscosity of the beverage. Sunfiber is very slowly and gently degraded by the but microflora and increases gut health without side effects and that also can induce satiety and decrease caloric intake.

SINALCO is known for its decades of experience in the beverage industry, and the company had with SINALCO Orange Zero a classic diet orange beverage formulation in which the Sunfiber was now included.

The sweetness system of these new beverags was developed by SWEETHOUSE, the third member of the strategic partnership, which is specialized in reducing sugar content as well as sugar substitutes, for which the company offers a range of concepts and products.

The new “Sunfiber”- Products have a great sugar-like sweet taste and the Sunfiber is “invisible” in the beverage, but has visible effects: The formulations are based on the formulation that was used in a clinical trial where the researchers found an increased satiety and   a reduced energy intake after the consumption of a similar beverage.

Study Design:

To assess the satiety effects of a beverage containing Sunfiber, a beverage was created that contained 3.72 g Sunfiber in 330 ml and the same isocaloric, Sunfiber-free beverage was used as placebo.

32 healthy volunteers (mean age: 43 years, BMI: 25.1 kg/m2) were enrolled in the study and divided into three groups:

• Control Group:         No Beverage
• Placebo Group:        isocaloric, Sunfiber-free beverage twice a day
• Sunfiber Group:       3.72 g Sunfiber in 330 ml twice a day.

The participants in the placebo and the Sunfiber group had to drink two beverages daily for a 2-wk adaptation, separated by 2-wk washout phase and a crossover design. All participants successfully completed this randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study

Satiety was measured the caloric energy intake at the next meal was measured in an acute test day before and after the 2-wk adaptation. Subjects consumed the 1st serving with the breakfast and the 2nd as a mid-morning snack drink.

Result of the Study:

Consuming a beverage containing 3.72g Sunfiber twice day significantly increased satiety feelings compared to Placebo and Control and reduced the energy intake from the next meal by 101 kcal and 71 kcal after the 2-wk adaptation as compared to control.

The researcher concluded that Ingesting 2 servings of a beverage with 3.72 g Sunfiber significantly increased satiety and non-significantly reduced next meal energy intake in healthy volunteers.

These effects are immanent only for Sunfiber as dietary fiber because a similar beverage containing 20g of soluble resistant dextrin showed in the same study design no satiety increase and a 10% increase in energy intake, which mean that dietary fiber are not all the same.

Sunfiber Orange is now the first beverage that was developed on the basis of this study. Sunfiber Orange has exactly the same great taste than a full sugar or sugar free orange diet drink but it offers the benefit to reduce caloric intake.

Drink with fun and eat less at the same time this is the promise that the Sunfiber Orange drink offers, clinically proven. Sunfiber Orange Zero is therefore the first “REAL DIET SOFTDRINK” that helps to eat less.

Sunfiber Orange is first time presented and introduced as innovative beverage concept at the Innovation in non-alcoholic Beverages Congress from 26 to 27 September 2018 in London http://www.arena-international.com/innovation-in-non-alcoholic-beverages). "Sunfiber Cola" is the second innovation and was presented in September 2019, as well in London.

TAIYO was a silver sponsor of the congresses and has introduced the new beverages in a plenary talk while SINALCO offer ed tastings at its stand for visitors to sample.

SWEETHOUSE was available for discussions about latest technologies in sugar reduction or sugar replacement.