Gone are the days of waiting hours and hours for jelly to set. Woodlands Dairy has launched First Choice Flavoured Jelly, packaged in 500g Tetra Briks, and claimed as a first for South Africa.

The second stevia-based sweetener has been launched in SA, with Huletts débuting EquiSweet sweetener with Stevia Plant Extract that, it says, offers consumers seeking balanced lifestyle choices an alternative to enjoy all of the sweetness of sugar with none of the guilt. It is asparteme free. [Click to enlarge]

In what appears to be the first FMCG product containing stevia, specialist sugar-free foods company, Cape Town's Delite Foods has launched Tantalize, a stevia leaf extract liquid sweetener.

Good to see some innovation spicing up the baked beans category: Rhodes has added two new variants to its range that it claims will add new meaning to “good enough to eat from the can”.