We Claim:
1 A sweetener formulation comprising:

coated sweetener particles, each sweetener particle of at least a portion of said sweetener particles having:

(a) a sweetener core;

(b) a sweetener shell at least partially enveloping said sweetener core, and

(c) polysaccharide particles disposed at least within said sweetener shell; wherein Cps-sheii is a first average concentration of said polysaccharide particles disposed in an outermost layer of said sweetener coating;

wherein Cps-core is a second average concentration of said polysaccharide particles disposed in said coated sweetener particles, radially inward with respect to said outermost layer; and wherein ( ps-shcii > Cps-core-

2. The formulation of claim 1, wherein Cps-cure / Cps-sbeii is at most 0.4

3. The formulation of claim 93, wherein Cps-tore / Cps-sheii is at most 0.05.

4. A method comprising:

(a) providing a slurry containing solids disposed in an aqueous medium containing dissolved sweetener, said solids including polysaccharide particles and sweetener kernel particles; and

(b) drying at least a portion of said solids to produce a dried sweetener product containing coated sweetener particles having a sweetener-and-polysaccharide coating enveloping said sweetener kernel particles.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising, prior to said drying:

separating off a first portion of said aqueous medium and a first portion of said polysaccharide particles from said sweetener kernel particles.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising, prior to said dry ing:

depositing at least a portion of said dissolved sweetener in said aqueous medium onto said sweetener kernel particles to produce a sweetener coating enveloping said sweetener kernel particles, said sweetener coating including at least a portion of said polysaccharide particles.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, following said depositing: separating off a first portion of said aqueous medium and a first portion of said polysaccharide particles from said sweetener kernel particles, thereby leaving said at least a portion of said solids as a wet cake in which a second portion of said aqueous medium and a second portion of said polysaccharide particles are disposed around said sweetener kernel particles.

8. The method of claim 6 or claim 7, wherein said depositing includes crystallizing.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least a portion of said crystallizing is performed by cooling crystallization.

10. The method of claim 8 or claim 9, wherein at least a portion of said crystallizing is performed by evaporative crystallization.