Tate & Lyle and Sweet Green Fields have entered into an exclusive partnership to deliver stevia ingredients and solutions to customers around the world.

“This is an exciting new partnership bringing together a collective passion for food, science and sweeteners,” said Joan Braca, President, Speciality Food Ingredients, Tate & Lyle. “Together, we will offer customers an extensive range of stevia-based ingredients and solutions to help them meet growing global consumer demand for healthier food and beverages with natural ingredients and fewer calories or less sugar. Tate & Lyle’s broad portfolio of sweeteners, applications expertise and strong innovation pipeline, combined with Sweet Green Fields’ expertise in the science of stevia, from seed to sale, will create significant opportunities for new product innovation.”

“We are delighted that Sweet Green Fields is combining its leading range of stevia products and knowledge with Tate & Lyle’s global scale and capabilities in sales, quality assurance, and applications development,” said Dean Francis, CEO at Sweet Green Fields. “We look forward to introducing our extraordinary stevia solutions to customers worldwide.”

Through this partnership, Tate & Lyle will provide customers with access to Sweet Green Fields’ line of steviol glycosides including its established ‘Project Non-GMO Verified’ stevia offerings, certified organic stevias, the sugar-like proprietary stevia extract INTESSE, and the Optimizer stevia series. The range of stevia-based sweeteners will be supported by Tate & Lyle’s global network of application laboratories and scientists, to help customers accelerate product development and speed to market.