Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Sorbitol
- Food Additive Number
- E 420(i), INS 420(i)
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Food Ingredients Features
- Characteristics
- Low calorie natural sweetener
- Low glycemic index
- Retains moisture as a humectant
- Prevents crystallizing
- An effective stabilizer for food and industrial chemicals
- Acts as a plasticiser / bulking agent / texturizing agent
- Cooling effect in mouth Improves viscosity in the end product
- High thermal and alkaline stability
- Excellent performance in bakery products
- Non cariogenic
- It does not participate in the Maillard reaction
- Meets the requirements of USP/EP/BP
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
Sunsorb® Sorbitol is used for jelly, chocolate, ice cream, dietary products, cake, bakery product and biscuit, wafer, hard candy, chewing gum and coating, cereal bar, jam and marmalade, jam filling, spreadable chocolate, wafer, fruit filling, dairy dessert, dried fruit.
Sorbitol is also used for personal care products like creams & lotions, shampoos, dental hygiene and pharmaceutical tablets and medical syrups, textile applications, polyurethane applications and construction chemicals.
Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Dry Substance | max. 71.5 | — | — |
| Dry Substance | min. 69 | — | — |
| Sorbitol (On Dry Substance) | min. 50 | % | — |
Regulatory & Compliance