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Has a startup finally found one of food science's holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?
Sharing the stage with other innovation-minded budding entrepreneurs, the Cambridge scientists boasted of a technology that could produce a sweetener that would mimic not just the taste of sugar, but the caramelization and stickiness that makes sugar the go-to additive for the bulk of roughly 74% of packaged foods that are made with some form of sweetener. Their company, Cambridge Glycoscience  could claim a huge slice of a market worth at least a $100 billion market, they said. Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. By the first century AD Greek and Roman scholars were referencing its medicinal properties and, after the Crusades, sugar consumption traveled across Europe through the Middle Ages.
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VideoHalle Berry stuns fans, hangs upside down on punching bag: 'This is just beyond impressive'
Halle Berry is making her more than 6 million Instagram followers want to stop scrolling and hit the gym. On Friday, the 54-year-old actress shared several photos of herself hanging from a punching bag, her body held up only by her intertwined ankles, appearing to do pull-ups.
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Robocallers have gotten out of control — here's how you can stop them
Robocalls are exploding again, but there are some ways to stop these nuisances.