Fructofin® Fructose
Fructose is the healthier sugar that can keep your product sweet & calorie-reduced. The sweetest sugar in nature, found in many fruits and vegetables, fructose also known as natural fruit sugar, as safe and as found in nature. Fructose is used worldwide in many applications for its health, nutritional and functional characteristics. It has a low glycaemic response and is suitable for diabetics.
Fructose can provide good taste masking and enhance natural taste and flavour of other ingredients such as fruits, milk, chocolate, tea, vanilla.
Fructofin® can provide both liquid form and crystalline formwith a purity of over 99%.
Potential benefits of Fructofin®Fructose:
- Highest sweetness of all sugars – up to 1.8 times that of sucrose. Enhances flavours, particularly those of fruit, chocolate, coffee and vanilla.
- High solubility and bring out clear & transparent solution.
- Depress freezing point.
- In addition, can be used as sugar substitute at lower quantities due to its sweetness level.
- “Reduced sugar”, “light and low sugar” claims may be made, as well as claims relating to reduced postprandial response when compared to glucose or sucrose.
- May also be used in “Low GI” applications because it does not cause an increase in blood sugar / insulin levels and offers a longer lasting source of energy.
- Enhanced mineral balance and iron absorption.
- DIT (dietary induced Thermogenesis): fructose has a higher thermogenic effect when compared with glucose, so that the body has a higher energy expenditure in order to metabolize fructose.
Application areas:
- Bakery
- Bars
- Beverages
- Confectionery
- Dairy
- Dietary supplements
- Frozen desserts
- Fruit applications
