Palatinose CAS 58166-27-1

In recent years, with the improvement of people’s living standards, the enhancement of health care awareness and the advancement of consumption concepts, people’s requirements for sweeteners also pay more attention to the unity of health care and nutrition.

Sucrose-a natural nutrient sweetener, although it is an essential substance for human life activities and physiological metabolism, some modern diseases will occur due to improper eating. Therefore, the development of new natural sweeteners that can replace sucrose has become one of today’s important issues.

Palatinose is an isomer of sucrose. It is made from sucrose as a raw material and transformed and refined by α-glucosyltransferase. It is a sweetener that uses biotechnology-enzyme engineering to change the properties of sucrose. It is a natural nutrient sugar that can avoid the shortcomings and diseases of eating sucrose. Palatinose is commonly known as Isomaltulose, which is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose combined with α-1,6. Glucosyltransferase (Glucosyltransferase) separates the glucose in sucrose from the original α-1, 2 binding part of fructose and converts it into α-1, 6 binding. It is different from sucrose only in the connection site of glucose and fructose in the molecule, so it is an isomer of sucrose.

Palatinose is white to light yellow crystals, no peculiar smell, molecular weight is 360.32, contains one mole of crystal water, melting point is 124℃, specific rotation [α][20]0 is 97.2, non-hygroscopic or very low, solubility and viscosity It is lower than sucrose and resistant to acid hydrolysis. At present, the immobilized cell (enzyme) method of biotechnology is used to convert sucrose into palatinose.