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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Emulsifiers 382<br />

NAME: Sucrose esters of fatty acids<br />

CATEGORY: Emulsifier<br />

FOOD USE: Bread/ Cakes/ Coffee milk drinks/ Ice-cream/ Spreads/ Yoghurt/ Toppings/ Noodles/ Colour solvent<br />

SYNONYMS: Sucrose fatty acid esters/ Saccharose esters<br />

FORMULA: Widely varying (Empirical C30 H56 O12 for sucrose monostearate)<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 508 (for monostearate)<br />

ALTERNATIVES FORMS: Varies according to fatty acid composition. Varies according to degree of esterification from mono- to<br />

octa-esters<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: White to cream powders (saturated); yellowish pastes to waxes (unsaturated)<br />

PURITY %: Total sucrose fatty acid ester content min 80%; total glyceride content max 20%<br />

(Dimethyl formamide content 1 mg/kg max)<br />

HEAVY METAL CONTENT MAXIMUM IN 10 (as Pb)<br />

ppm:<br />

ARSENIC CONTENT MAXIMUM IN ppm: 3<br />

ASH MAXIMUM IN %: 2<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Wide range of usages in Japan which are mostly fulfilled by other types of emulsifiers in other<br />

countries, often at lower cost. Strongly hydrophilic types produce very stable oil-in-water emulsions<br />

Amylose complexing index

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