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Sucrose isomers as alternative sweeteners: properties, production, and applications
- Source :
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103:8677-8687
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- In the daily diet, sweeteners play an indispensable role. Among them, sucrose, a widely occurring disaccharide in nature, is a commonly used sweetener. However, the intake of sucrose can cause a rapid increase in blood glucose, which leads to a number of health problems. Therefore, there is an urgent need for possible alternatives to sucrose. Currently, four naturally occurring sucrose isomers, trehalulose, turanose, leucrose, and isomaltulose are considered to be possible alternatives to sucrose due to their suitable sweetness, potential physiological benefits, and feasible production processes. This review covers the properties of these alternative sweeteners, including their structure, sweetness, hydrolysis rate, toxicology, and cariogenicity, and exhibits their potential applications in chronic diseases management, anti-inflammatory supplement, prebiotic dietary supplement, and stabilizing agent. The biosynthesis of these sucrose isomers using carbohydrate-active enzymes and their industrial production processes are also systematically summarized.
- Subjects :
- Sucrose
medicine.medical_treatment
Disaccharide
Disaccharides
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Turanose
03 medical and health sciences
Health problems
chemistry.chemical_compound
Hydrolysis
Isomaltulose
Isomerism
medicine
Humans
Food science
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
030306 microbiology
Prebiotic
food and beverages
General Medicine
Isomaltose
Sweetness
Diet
chemistry
Food
Sweetening Agents
Taste
Biotechnology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320614 and 01757598
- Volume :
- 103
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1d74b6f8e87231100290e6bfd7ad8b4