A sugar hack to make cake healthier

Tel Aviv-based startup DouxMatok has developed a way to help sugar deliver its sweet goodness to our taste buds more efficiently. It comes down to silica, a mineral in green beans that excels at finding our taste receptors. On its own, only 20% of sugar in food hits our taste buds. But when embedded in silica, food makers can use 40% less sugar to get the same taste. For now, the method only works for solids — so soda giants will need to look elsewhere.