Traditional Sweeteners

Nostalgic, Reliable Taste Consumers Love

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Nutritive Sweeteners You Can Rely On

ADM has long legacy in supplying tried-and-true ingredients that are the foundation of a robust range of sweetening solutions.

Sweetening Product Families

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Crystalline Fructose

Provide superior taste with upfront sweetness, body and moisture retention with this simple sugar.

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Dextrose

Also known as D-glucose, dextrose is exceptionally versatile with benefits that go far beyond sweetness.

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Maltodextrin & Corn Syrup Solids

Support a variety of functional benefits—with minimal effect on finished product’s taste and texture.

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Enhance Quality and Performance

ADM has a variety of traditional sweeteners designed to meet your application requirements and fulfill consumer needs. Improve your formulations, deliciously.

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Improved Texture

Enhance texture in a variety of applications from foam retention in beverages to crispy exterior of snacks.

Functional Carbohydrates

We offer sweeteners containing functional carbohydrates, which are one of the body’s primary sources of energy.

Calorie & Sugar Reduction

With ingredients with a fraction of the calories of table sugar, but even more sweetness, you can reduce sweetener levels and calorie count.

Clean Taste

Our nutritive sweeteners deliver on clean taste, mouthfeel and shelf life extension without impact on taste and texture. Plus, it has the ability to balance off-notes when blended with other low and no calorie sweeteners.

Essential Ingredients for Every Category

ADM’s wide range of traditional sweeteners has an option for every formulation challenge. Create crave-worthy products formulated with ease.

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Bakery

Deliver sweetness, flavor and texture consumers expect from sweet treats.

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Beverages

Ingredients ideal for various beverage goals—blending with low and no calorie sweeteners, depressing freezing points and more.

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Confectionery

Provide high viscosity and optimal sweetness for candies and chocolates.

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Culinary

Balance sweetness while providing bulk, mouthfeel and production benefits.

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Dairy

Dry nutritive sweetener options that mix easily and don’t affect liquid levels.

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Pharma & Nutrition

Provide a source of energy for infant formulas and other medical nutrition products

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Millions of Acres for a Sweeter Tomorrow

Grounded in sustainability practices, from farm to final product, ADM is committed to providing responsibly sourced ingredients with direct impact on scope 3 emissions.

Throughout our corn milling operations, we use 99% of every kernel and are continually reducing our environmental impact, including developing new solutions that help reduce water, waste and energy use.