Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Confectionery

Treat your confection products to superior ingredient quality

Ingredients you can trust, isn't that sweet?

We understand that achieving sugar-free deliciousness or clean, sweet taste is not an easy job.  We hope to partner with you to support your goals in great-tasting confectionary applications and support your brand’s success. 

Ready to Support your Formulation Needs

Work with our team to craft the perfect ingredient solution for your confectionery product.

Culinary Experts

Our team of chefs & scientists are here to support you through the formulation process.

Diverse Portfolio

Our portfolio of ingredient solutions, enhance taste, reduce sugar, and more to help you craft the best confectionary product.

Premium Ingredients

We produce the highest quality ingredients possible through advanced fermentation and extraction technology.

Confectionery Solutions

Discover some of the many solutions we have to offer confectionary brands

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Sugar Reduction

Reduce sugar content in low or no sugar formulas without sacrificing desirable sugar-like taste.

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Taste Improvement

Enhance delicious chocolate, fruit, and citrus notes that bring authenticity and overall enhanced flavor to your confectionary application.

Featured Products for Confectionary Applications

Parfait with AJISWEET sweetener

AJISWEET™

AjiSweet Natural Blends are excellent sweetener systems that are a great fit for reduced sugar, no sugar, and clean label formulas.

Aspartame

The world's best high potency sweetener for sugar-like taste.

Food-Grade Amino Acids

The highest quality amino acids to enrich your products.

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A new study published in the Journal of Food Science suggests monosodium glutamate (MSG) can be used to significantly reduce sodium while also promoting the enjoyment of better-for-you foods like grains and vegetables.

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While naturally rich in umami, cheese, especially aged cheeses, also tend to be high in salt. This is especially true of processed cheese products, such as flavored cheese balls. If approached by a leading CPG client to reformulate its flavored spreadable cheddar cheese “party” ball to reduce sodium and enhance flavor, the product support team at Ajinomoto Health and Nutrition would approach the challenge with the goal of attaining a 25% reduction in total sodium chloride levels, while imparting a delicious aged character to the end product.
With millions of consumers expressing a desire to lower the amount of salt—sodium chloride—in their daily diets, stress typically has been placed on cutting out any ingredient with the word “sodium” in it. But strict removal of all things sodium means that those same consumers are missing out on one of the most effective salt-lowering solutions they can get: monosodium glutamate (MSG).
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