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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Sweeteners 950<br />

NAME: Mannitol<br />

CATEGORY: Sweetener/ Nutritive additive/ Bulking agent<br />

FOOD USE: Baked goods/ Sugars, sugar preserves and confectionery (sugar-free confections)/ Other (chewable<br />

tablets, chewing gum, vitamins, chocolates, effervescent powders, intravenous osmotic diuretics, oral<br />

intestinal transit enhancers)<br />

SYNONYMS: CFSAN D-Mannitol/ CAS 69-65-8/ EINECS 200-711-8/ E421/ Mannose sugar/ Mannite/ Manna sugar/<br />

Cordycepic acid/ 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexanehexol/ UniSweet MAN/ Manicol/ Mannidex/ Diosmol/ Osmitrol/<br />

Osmosal/ Resectisol<br />

FORMULA: C6H14 O6<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 182.17<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Pleasant, sweet taste with no aftertaste (0.6 relative to sucrose).<br />

White crystalline, odourless, slightly sweet powder. Low mouth-cooling effect<br />

BOILING POINT IN °C AT VARIOUS 290–295<br />

PRESSURES (INCLUDING 760 mm Hg):<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: 165–169<br />

ARSENIC CONTENT MAXIMUM IN ppm: 1<br />

SOLUBILITY % AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURE/pH COMBINATIONS:<br />

in water: @ 20°C 14.5 g/100 g solution @ 50°C 31 g/100 g solution<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 100% Very slightly soluble<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Bulking agent, so adds texture and mouthfeel to properties.<br />

More chemically stable. Have an affinity for water without altering sweetening power.<br />

Reduced tendency to crystallise. Anti-adhesion agent. Excipient for use in baking: reduced<br />

fermentability; increased resistance to non-enzymic browning reactions; decreased tendency to<br />

crystallise; increased hygroscopicity

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