Cargill Plans to Introduce No-Calorie Sweetener

Welcome to the sweetener wars.

Cargill Inc. said it has made available data to the Food and Drug Administration attesting that a new no-calorie natural sweetener it has developed with Coca-Cola Co. is safe for consumption, and that it plans to introduce it as a tabletop sweetener in the U.S. market by year end.

Meanwhile, PepsiCo Inc. said it also has plans to use a zero-calorie sweetener similar to Cargill and Coke's product. The announcements ...