Cargill introduced ViaTech, a line of stevia-based sweeteners that boast a proprietary “taste-prediction model” designed to predict which combination of steviol glycosides deliver optimal taste and sweetness for the given application. “In typical beverage formulations, the quick burst of sourness from citric acid coupled with the slight delay in sweetness onset often times results in a sweet-sour imbalance,” says Wade Schmelzer, a principal scientist at Cargill. “ViaTech improves this balance and yields a better quality of sweetness, allowing for greater sugar reductions.”