Locate sweetener distributors

If you prepare foods and beverages to sell to your customers, or if you want to stock food and beverage sweeteners on your shelves, you may need to use more than one distributor to get the variety that your customers demand. Offer several different sweeteners to increase sales.

I recommend: McNeil Nutritionals markets sucralose under the name of Splenda. Their product has an insignificant calorie value that meets FDA standards for low calorie sweeteners. Wholesome Sweeteners offers a line of all natural and organic sweeteners. They have distributors throughout the United States.

Stock drinks with sweeteners

To meet the needs of all customers it is a good idea to stock drinks that are sweetened with sugar, as well as offering low calorie sweetener choices. Beverages without any sweeteners, such as water and seltzer water, should also be offered for those times when the customer does not want a sweet drink.

I recommend: Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo offer soda sweetened with aspartame. Coca-Cola also has a line of juices with various sweeteners used.

Offer a variety of foods with sweeteners

There are more beverages sweetened with low calorie sweeteners available on the market than there are foods. When stocking your shelves with sweet foods, you may want the majority of the food offered to be sugar sweetened. However, it is also a good idea to offer a limited amount of foods sweetened with low calorie sweeteners.

I recommend: The Hain Celestial Group offers a large line of candy, cookies and other food products sweetened with fructose, marketed under the Estee name. Diabetic Direct offers a large variety of sugar free and low calorie sweetened foods. They have everything from baking mixes to cereals and soups.