Fructose FCC IV
1. Characteristics:
Fructose is white crystallized powder, sweet taste, tasting twice as sweet ae sucrose, and tastes particularly sweet when cold or in solution, it is sweetest glucide.
2. Application:
Food industry: Fructose replaces sucrose in canned fruit and fruit preserves together with 20-30% maltose syrup, also it is can be used in carbonated beverages as only sweetener or in combination sucrose and with artificial sweeter such as saccharin. Other applications are: Bread and cakes, Creams, Marmalade, Chocolate, soft drinks, etc.
3. Package:
Net 25kg kraft bags.
4. Storage:
Kept in a light-proof, well-colsed, dry and cool place.
5. Specification:
ITEM | STANDARD | RESULT |
Appearance | White crystalline powder | White Crystalline powder |
IdentificationA: TLC Identification B: Identification C: Identification D: | Conformity | Conformity |
Appearance of solution | clear and colourless | clear and colourless |
Acidity or Alkalinity | Conformity | Conformity |
Specific optical rotation | -91.0 ~-93.5° | -91.9° |
Foreign sugars | Conformity | Conformity |
5-Hydroxymethylfural and related compounds | ≤0.32 | 0.17 |
Barium | Conformity | Conformity |
Lead | ≤0.5 ppm | <0.5 ppm |
Loss on drying | ≤0.5% | 0.08% |
Sulphated ash | ≤0.1% | 0.05% |
Arsenic | ≤1ppm | <1ppm |
Calcium and magnesium (as Calcium) | ≤0.005% | <0.005% |
Heavy metals | ≤5ppm | <5ppm |