Bye-bye sugar — hello healthy sweetness! Meet the future of sweet. These are novel proteins from nature that charade as sweeteners but digest like proteins. You don't get any of the bad sugar and sugar-alternative side-effects (like triggered blood sugar levels and changing gut microbiomes).

Most sweet proteins come from fruits and berries that are native to West Africa and other similarly hard-to-reach (and not easy to grow in) places. Many of these fruits and berries have been used for centuries by locals as naturally occurring sweeteners. We like to think of them as "nature's candy."

Sweet proteins evolved to trick primates into climbing to hard-to-reach places in search of delicious sweet flavors. What did the plants get? They could stay alive by having their seeds spread. When the primates ate the sweet proteins they triggered their T1R2/T1R3 receptors (these are how we "taste" sweet flavors) for a satisfying bite.

Because they are proteins, not sugars, they immediately unfold and are digested without triggering blood sugar levels and offering small amounts of energy. Turns out that an evolutionary trick is exactly what we humans need today — the sweet tastes we love without any of the health baggage.

Oobli sweet proteins are up to 5,000 times sweeter on a like-for-like (size) basis. So, incredibly sweet. A little goes a long way!

Sweet proteins don't trigger blood sugar levels in digestion or issues in our guts. Sweet proteins are protein, not sugar. Period.

Sweet proteins are up to 5,000 times sweeter on a like-for-like (size) basis, so a little goes a long way, so although Oobli foods use sweet proteins to sweeten them, they use such small amounts that few if any will change the % total of proteins already in that particular food. Specific foods list specific proteins on their nutrition fact panels. Sweet proteins show up in the protein % to total.

Yep, our proteins come from nature without any chemicals or unpronounceable ingredients included. Nothing funky, just all-natural sweetness.

No, Oobli proteins are nature-identical and do not contain GMOs. The yeast we work with are really good at producing different kinds of protein naturally. We simply give them instructions for producing exactly the type of protein we want — in this case, sweet proteins.

We then filter out the yeast, leaving only sweet protein powder. In other words, we use a bioengineering process, but there’s no genetic material present in our delicious sweet proteins.

Our sweet proteins are made through a fermentation process called “precision fermentation.”   And while fermentation has been around for years -- used to make everything from cheese to vitamins (think brewing beer!) -- thanks to amazing break-throughs in technology in recent years we can now also "brew" very specialized sweet proteins that are identical to the sweet proteins found in nature. 

These proteins offer a game-changing solution for delicious sweet foods that are good for your body and our planet.