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 |
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