Chemical Name: Alpha-D-Glucopyranosy1-1.4-D-Glucitol

Formula: C12H24O11

Molecular Weight: 344.31

Cas No. : 585-88-6

Maltitol is a reduced calorie bulk sweetener with sugar-like taste and sweetness. Its stability, high sweetness, and structure make it suitable for a variety of reduced-calorie, reduced-fat and sugar-free foods. Maltitol does not promote tooth decay.

Maltitol is a member of a family of bulk sweeteners known as polyols or sugar alcohols. It has a pleasant sweet taste--remarkably similar to sucrose. Maltitol is about 90% as sweet as sugar, non-cariogenic, and significantly reduced in calories. Maltitol is especially useful in the production of sweets, including sugarless hard candies, chewing gum, chocolates,* baked goods and ice cream.

Maltitol is made by the hydrogenation of maltose which is obtained from starch. Like other polyols, it does not brown or caramelize as do sugars. Maltitol’s high sweetness allows it to be used without other sweeteners. It exhibits a negligible cooling effect in the mouth compared to most other polyols. Although maltitol is often used to replace sugars in the manufacture of sugar-free foods, it may also be used to replace fat as it gives a creamy texture to food.

1 The sweet taste degree and sweet taste character

The sweet taste degree of maltitol is 85%-95% of cane sugar, and its sweet taste quality is the most close to the granulated sugar among all the sugar alcohol. Furthermore, the sweet taste appear rapidly and manmade well .It brings comfortable and carefree sweet taste quality.

2 Stability

The maltitol wont aggravate color up by heated as other polyols, it will not cause Maillard reaction with amino acid and protein by heated, It has well character to endure the heat.

3 Modulation blood sugar

It dont excite the insulin to excrete. I t hasnt any side effect for the diabetic and adiposis sufferer,can improve the immune ability.

4 debasing the fattiness

It dont enhance the vires of lipoprotein lipase and prevent the fattiness to deposit in body.For this,the adiposis sufferer can use it freely.

5 Preventing the decayed tooth

It dont produce the acid and the groundwork of the decayed tooth for forbidding to be used by the streptococcus.It can prevent and help the body to improve the ability of absorbing and keeping calcium.

6 It has the trait of keeping damp and aroma and can keep the food aroma and aesthetic feeling.

7 It is can be used solely or with other sweetener.