1. Definition: Functional sweeteners refer to food sweeteners with special physiological functions or special purposes. It can be divided into two categories in terms of use. One is that it has no adverse effect on health and can replace sucrose to solve the problem that eating too much sucrose is not beneficial to health. agent.
2. Functional sweeteners are divided into four categories:
(1) Functional monosaccharides, including xylose, crystalline glucose, crystalline fructose, high fructose syrup, etc.
(2) Functional oligosaccharides, including xylo-oligosaccharides, isomaltose oligosaccharides, galactooligosaccharides, fructooligosaccharides, lactulose, raffinose, soybean oligosaccharides, lactulose oligosaccharides, etc.
(3) Polyvalent sugar alcohols, including maltitol, xylitol, erythritol, sorbitol, mannitol, etc.
(4) Intense sweeteners, including sucralose, aspartame, neotame, dihydrochalcone, glycyrrhizin, stevioside, monk fruit extract, cyclamate, acesulfame potassium, etc. Intense sweeteners are very sweet, usually more than 50 times that of sucrose. third generation IVF
With the improvement of people's living standards, the way of life is developing in the direction of comfort and leisure, all kinds of snack foods quickly occupy a place in the public life, and sweets such as candy are more traditional snack foods. preference. From the perspective of new consumption concepts and health concepts, the development of sweets in my country is developing in the direction of functional diversification, taste diversification, packaging diversification, sugar-free and low-calorie. Therefore, traditional sweets can no longer meet the needs of consumers, and my country's functional sweeteners are constantly innovating to meet this consumption trend, while highlighting the characteristics of nutrition, functionality and health. At the same time, sugar-free, healthy and sweet taste has become a new focus. Among various sweeteners, the application of various functional sweeteners such as erythritol, xylo-oligosaccharide, psicose, and malt-oligosaccharide has also received more and more attention.
