What are the common sweeteners

Introduction: sweetener is a kind of food additive Many foods will contain sweetener What are the common sweeteners? Xiaobian will introduce you in this article Sweeteners refer to the food additives that give sweetness to food What are the common sweeteners? At present, there are about 20 kinds of sweeteners allowed to be used in the world There are several different classification methods of sweeteners: they can be divided into natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners according to their sources; they can be divided into nutritional sweeteners and non nutritional sweeteners according to their nutritional value; According to its chemical structure and properties, it can be divided into sugar and non sugar sweeteners Sugar sweeteners mainly include sucrose, fructose, starch sugar, sugar alcohol, oligofructose, isomaltulose and so on Sucrose, fructose and starch sugar are generally regarded as food raw materials and not as food additives in China Sugar alcohols have the same sweetness as sucrose because of their low calorific value, or because they have different metabolic processes with glucose, and have some special uses, which are generally listed as food Additives Main varieties: sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, xylitol, etc Non sugar sweeteners include natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners Generally, they have high sweetness, little dosage and little calorific value Some of them do not participate in the metabolism process They are often called non nutritive or low calorific value sweeteners They are important varieties of sweeteners The main products of natural sweeteners are: stevia, Glycyrrhiza, 2-sodium Glycyrrhiza, 3-sodium Glycyrrhiza (potassium), sweet konjac, etc The main products are saccharin, saccharin sodium, sodium cyclamate (cyclamate), aspartame phenylalanine methyl ester (sweetener or aspartame), potassium acetylsulfonate (Acesulfame), sucralose, etc Little knowledge of food additives has almost become an indispensable problem in the process of food production It's better to use the food safety detector to test it after the completion of production Now there are some problems about sweeteners and bulking agents, which have become a hot issue for people, including the difference between sweeteners and white granulated sugar , you can log in our safety net to check Editor in charge: he xianrob