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Coconut Pineapple Granola Bar

Featured Ingredient: Tagatose

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Tagatose performs well in a variety of applications including granola bars. Our testing shows that granola bars made with Tagatose deliver a better texture and similar perceived sweetness compared to bars made with sucrose.  They also brown during baking like granola bars made with sucrose.

Formulation
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Coconut Pineapple Granola Bar Formula
Ingredients%
Old-fashioned oats14.9
Puffed rice3.0
Almonds, slivered21.6
Unsweetened shredded coconut16.6
Tagatose25
Coconut oil5.3
Water4.2
Salt0.3
Dried pineapple, cut in 1/4-inch cubes9.1
Total100

Tagatose also delivers a number of other benefits to granola bars:

  • Functions as both a sweetener and binder
  • Is lower in calories than granola bars prepared with sucrose
  • Tagatose does not promote tooth decay