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Sugar alcohols can be, and often are, produced from renewable resources.Particular feedstocks are starch, cellulose and hemicellulose; the main conversion technologies use H 2 as the reagent: hydrogenolysis, i.e. the cleavage of C−O single bonds, converting polymers to smaller molecules, and hydrogenation of C=O double bonds, converting sugars to sugar alcohols.
Erythritol (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ θ r ɪ t ɒ l /, US: /-t ɔː l,-t oʊ l /) [2] is an organic compound, the naturally occurring achiral meso four-carbon sugar alcohol (or polyol). [3] It is the reduced form of either D- or L- erythrose and one of the two reduced forms of erythrulose .
Sugar alcohols also aren’t quite as sweet as sugar, whereas artificial sweeteners are much sweeter. Erythritol has just 6 percent of the calories of sugar and is about 70 percent as sweet ...
A sugar substitute is a food additive that provides a sweetness like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy than sugar-based sweeteners, making it a zero-calorie (non-nutritive) [2] or low-calorie sweetener. Sugar substitute products are commercially available in various forms, such as small pills, powders and packets.
Sugar alcohols include erythritol, xylitol, maltitol, mannitol and sorbitol. They are 25%-100% as sweet as sugar, found naturally in some foods like fruit and vegetables and contain fewer calories ...
What is erythritol? Erythritol is a sugar alcohol, a type of carbohydrate that is almost as sweet as sugar. At just 0.24 calories per gram (compared to table sugar’s 4 calories per gram), ...
Starting from biomass, 180 billion tons/y of complex carbohydrates (sugar polymers) are produced commercially (as of 2014). [32] Many other alcohols are pervasive in organisms, as manifested in other sugars such as fructose and sucrose , in polyols such as glycerol , and in some amino acids such as serine .
Erythritol is one ingredient on a growing list of nonsugar sweeteners found in low-calorie and sugar-free foods. Erythritol and xylitol are sugar alcohols that are sweet like sugar but with far ...