What is Brazzein?
Nature’s sweetest protein
The remarkable sweetness of the oubliée berry comes from Brazzein—a natural protein that is up to 1,500 times sweeter than sugar. It is a highly attractive sweetener for food and beverage manufacturers, health-conscious consumers, and individuals with dietary restrictions such as diabetes.
Brazzein offers the full sweetness of sugar for all your needs – improving taste experience, reducing sugar content, or achieving zero sugar.
Nutritional and Health Benefits
Non-caloric protein sweetener that has no impact on the Glycemic Index.
- Has no adverse effects on the gut health
- Suitable for people with diabetes or those managing sugar intake for weight reduction
- Zero sugar
- Zero calorie based on average daily consumption
- Naturally digested as a protein
- Gluten Free and Vegan
Food Manufacturing
Cost-efficient product delivering consistent high quality and quantities.
- EFSA expected in line with the first demo scale production in Q1 2027
- Very high purity product
- 1kg of Brazzein is equal to 1500kg of sugar saving on storage space and logistics volumes
Flavour and Recipe Development
Designed for flexible applications:
- Clean, sugar-like taste without the bitter, metallic, or licorice-like aftertaste common in many other natural or synthetic sweeteners
- Suitable for dairy, confectionery, chocolate, protein fortified products and beyond
- Highly water soluble and heat-stable
- Works well as standalone sweetener or in synergetic effect with multiple other sweeteners
- Can mostly be used without additional masking solutions
Sustainability
- Allows to meet sustainability goals as developed fermentation process reduces significant needs for land when farming sugarcane
- Promotes circular economy as the byproduct of the fermentation process is planned to be used as agricultural fertilizer or as animal feed.
