The food industry is being challenged to redesign
traditional foods for optimal nutritional value, in re-
sponse to some population sectors with particular nu-
tritional necessities, and making them as tasty or better
than the original. One way to achieve a healthy food
product is to reduce or to omit some of the calorie-laden
ingredients – especially sugar and fat – since, at present,
obesity is frequently cited as a serious health problem.
At the same time there is a constant demand for dietetic
foods suitable for diabetics, that may have the same
calorie-value being also sucrose-free since this sugar
cannot be metabolised without insulin.