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Food Sweeteners

Sweeteners can be divided into two main categories: non-nutritive and nutritive. Non-nutritive sweeteners, such as aspartame, neotame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and saccharin, offer sweetness without adding calories and are often used in low-calorie food products.

Food Sweeteners

Food Sweeteners

Applications

Fruit juice
Corn sugar
Syrup
Jam
Ice cream
Candies
Bread
Bulking agent
Increase size of product
Aids in fermantation
Increase dough yield
Lactic acid produce by glucose fermentation
Soften the bread
Improve natural sweetness
Act as preservatives
Extend shelf life of products
Inhibit microbial growth and spoilage
Decrease water activity
Decrease moisture content
Improve texture
Lower freezing point

Eg. ice cream

Mask odd and unwanted flavour
Balance acidity of food

Types

Non- nutritive

Acesulfame potassium

Has excellent solubility

High level causes bitter taste

Saccharin

May provide unpleasant aftertaste

Sucralose

Do not react chemically with other ingredients

Neotame

Made of 2 amino acis

Phenylalanine

Aspartic acid

Sweetest non- nutritive sweeteners

Aspartame

Used in low calories food products

Do not promote tooth decay

Artificial
No calories
Most widely used
High intensity sweeteners
Nutritive
Examples

Honey

1-1.5 times sweeter than sucrose

Glucose syrup

Low DE

Impact viscosity, moisture content and sweetness

High Dextrose Equivalence (DE)

More sweeter than Low DE

Less viscosity

Derived from starch

Acid or enzyme hydrolysis

Dextrose

Application

Baked goods

Procced meat

Provide mouth cooling effect

About 67% of the sweetness of sucrose

A reducing monosaccharide

Lactose

Increase flavour and tender stucture

Browning in baked product

Act as flow agent

Control crystallization

1/6 as sweet as sucrose

Disaccharide derived from milk

Sucrose

Functions

Improve shelf life

Aids in fermentation of baked goods

Enhance flavour

Browning (Maillard reaction)

Good solubility

Increase viscosity

Disaccharide= glucose + fructose

Fermentation bread and pickle
Act as preservative

Eg. Jam and jellies

Provide calories

4 cal/g

Occur naturally