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There isn't any technical information in the article, but what does "a way to structure sugar differently" mean? Do they mean change it from being sucrose to s

There isn't any technical information in the article, but what does "a way to structure sugar differently" mean? Do they mean change it from being sucrose to some other compound?

CoryG89 10y ago
There is a link to the Nestle announcement in the article. Doesn't contain much more information but it does say: > Using only natural ingredients, Nestlé researchers have found a way to structure sugar differently. > Our scientists have discovered a completely new way to use a traditional, natural ingredient. No link to the patent application that I can find though. : / http://www.nestle.com/media/news/nestle-research-discovery-sugar-reduction http://www.nestle.com/media/news/nestle-research-discovery-s...
- cowpewter 10y ago
  :( I mean, isn't technically sucralose (splenda) just a "different way to structure sugar" in that they tack a few chlorines on it?
  - uremog 10y ago
    And "natural" can mean a whole lot of things.
- JadeNB 10y ago
  momeara (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080704) dug up a link to the patent: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2016173929 https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20... .