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General
Information
- Isomalt is
a unique, excellent tasting sugar-free bulk sweetener.
- Isomalt is
a mixture of two disaccharide alcohols: gluco-mannitol and
gluco-sorbitol.
- Isomalt is
a sugarfree sugar replacer.
Process
- The
two-step process begins with sucrose. First, an enzyme
rearranges the linkage between glucose and fructose in sucrose.
In the second step, two hydrogens are added to an oxygen in the
fructose portion of the disaccharide
Uses
- Isomalt
has been used in the United States for several years in products
such as hard candies, toffees, chewing gum, chocolates, baked
goods, nutritional supplements, cough drops and throat lozenges.
- Its main
application is in sugarfree confectionery including chewing gum
and candies, in which Isomalt typically replaces sugar by
volume.
- Isomalt is
used as an excipient, sweetener, thickening agent, anti-caking
agent or stabiliser.
Market
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The market for sugar-free
confectionery can only gain pace, keeping in step with an
increased consumer demand for 'guilt-free' products spurred on
by burgeoning rates of obesity and diabetes across the globe.
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Increasing market demand has led
Cerestar to expand its isomalt production in Krefeld, Germany,
expanding its capacity to meet worldwide consumer needs for
confectionery sugar-free sweetener.
- In France
where sugar-free has a market share of 88 per cent - traditional
sugar chewing gum consumption was down 16 per cent against a 13
per cent rise in sales of the sugar-free alternatives.
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