Maltitol is a sugar free, reduced calorie sweetener made from corn. It has a pleasant sugar-like taste and sweetness. Maltitol has about half the calories of sugar and is useful for making a variety of sugar free and reduced calorie foods is a kind of sugar alcohol made from starch through hydrolysis, hydrogenation. It can be easily dissolved in water. It has a moderate sweet taste and the sweet intensity is lower than sucrose. It features in lower heat, heat-resistance, acid-resistance.
The blood sugar can increase in human body after having it. It is a new functional sweetener. Maltitol has special physiological functions and physical and chemical characteristics, And has special that other sweetener can substitute. It is widely used inMany industries such as food process, health products, etc.