Food additives data book - wordpres

Sweeteners 968
NAME: Sorbitol
CATEGORY: Sweetener/ Nutritive additive/ Humectant/ Bulking agent/ Anti-caking agent
FOOD USE: Baked goods (cookies, cakes, icings, fillings, biscuits)/ Sugars, sugar preserves and confectionery
(confections, fondants, fudge, marshmallows, table-top sweetener, “boiled” sweets)/ Fruit, vegetables
and nut products (preserves, jellies, fillings)/ Dairy products (ice-cream, frozen desserts, sorbets)/ Fish
and seafood products (surimi, kamaboko, fish sausage, crab meat analogue)/ Vinegar, pickles and
sauces (sauces, mayonnaise, fats)/ Alcoholic drinks (beer)/ Beverages (coffee, tea, chocolate drinks,
flavoured drinks)/ Other (chewing gum, chocolate, caramels, toothpaste, liquid pharmaceuticals, solid
pharmaceuticals, injectable pharmaceuticals, vitamins, mouthwash)/ Meat, poultry and egg products
(meat-based products)
SYNONYMS: CFSAN D-Sorbitol/ CAS 50-70-4/ EINECS 200-061-6/ E420i/ D-Glucitol/ D-Sorbite/ 1,2,3,4,5,6-
Hexanehexol/ L-Gulitol/ Sorbit/ Cystosol/ Sorbilax/ Sorbol/ Sorbicolan/ Sorbo/ Sorbostyl/ Niuitin/
Cholaxine/ Karion/ Sionit/ Sionon/ Sorbilande/ Diakarmon/ Hydex 100 Coarse Powder/ Hydex 100
Coarse Powder 35/ Hydex 100 Granular 205/ Hydex 100 Coarse Powder 60/ Hydex tablet grade/
Hystar 7570/ Liponic Sorbitol Powder/ Liponic Sorbitol Solution 70% USP/ Unisweet 70/ Resulax/
Sorbitur
FORMULA: CH2OH-(CHOH)4-CH2OH
MOLECULAR MASS: 182.17
PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: High mouth-cooling effect. Imparts a cooling sensation due to heat absorption when dissolved.
Pleasant, sweet taste with no aftertaste.
Solution: clear, colourless syrup; sweet, bland taste; odourless.
Crystalline form: white hygroscopic powder; slightly sweet odour.
Sweet taste – sweetness 60% of sucrose
BOILING POINT IN °C AT VARIOUS High mannitol solution and sorbitol solution: 105
PRESSURES (INCLUDING 760 mm Hg):