What is Mannitol?
Mannitol Sweetener Powder has a sugar dew flavor, a sugar alcohol with a sweet appearance, which is a hexitol, a sweetener that can be used as a sweetener of mannose. Alcohols are classified as sugar alcohols; they are derived from sugars. Other sugar alcohols include xylitol and sorbitol.
Soluble in water, a white transparent solid with a sweet taste similar to sucrose.
The sweetness is about 57%~72% of sucrose.
It is not oxidized by oxygen in the air. Soluble in water (5.6g/100mL,20�ºC) and glycerin (5.5g/100mL),
slightly soluble in ethanol (1.2g/100mL), almost insoluble in most other commonly used organic solvents.
Mannitol is a 6-carbon sugar alcohol, which can be made from fructose through catalytic hydrogenation.
It has low hygroscopicity, and is often used as a dusting agent in gum candy manufacturing to avoid bonding with manufacturing equipment and packaging machinery.
It is also used as a plasticizing system component to maintain its soft properties.
It can also be used as a thinner or filler for sugar tablets and as a chocolate-flavored coating for ice cream and candy. Has a pleasant flavor, does not fade at high temperature, chemical properties are not lively.
Its pleasant flavor and texture mask vitamin, mineral and herb scents.
It is a good low calorie sweetener, gumdrop and candy anti-stick agent, nutritional supplement and tissue modifier, moisturizing agent.
