Product Applications
FOOD
Applications: Bakery products, dairy products, frozen desserts, ice cream, pudding, sorbet, smoothies, yogurt.
Benefits:
- Sugar-like taste in combination with intense sweetener
- Excellent heat and acid stability
- Improved shelf life
- Great water activity management
- Enhanced bulk and body
- Optimal freezing point depression
- Does not raise blood glucose or insulin levels
Improves Quality
When compared to sucrose in baking, Sweet & Friendly Co. erythritol exhibits different melting behavior, a more compact dough, fewer colour formations, better moisture control and softer baked products.
In addition, the use of erythritol as a bulking agent can support sugar replacement strategies and allow for lower calorie profiles in many dairy products and frozen desserts.
TABLETOP SWEETENER
Applications: Spoonable sweeteners, cubed sweeteners
Benefits:
- Sugar-like taste and texture when used in combination with intense sweeteners\
- Enhanced taste profile
- Fewer calories
- Non-hygroscopicity
- Does not raise blood glucose or insulin levels
CONFECTIONERY
Applications: Mints, candies, lollipops, gums, ice chips
- Clean, sugar-like taste
- Fine crystal structure
- Non-hygroscopic
- Attractive cooling effect
- Moisture management
- Does not raise blood glucose or insulin levels
- Cost-effective combination of erythritol/sorbitol (ratio 40/60) for improved crunchy coating with better adhesion to centre in comparison to xylitol
- Combines erythritol/maltitol (ratio 40/60) for improved crunchiness and lowest moisture pickup
- Partial substitution of sorbitol with erythritol improves chewing gum process ability, texture (flexibility) and shelf life
- Provides an enhanced and long-lasting cooling effect
- Has a high cooling effect as a sherbet filling in stamped hard candies, or in double or triple layered hard candies when used in its crystalline form
- The only polyol sweetener that allows a >30% calorie reduction in chocolate.
- Presents an excellent gloss, good snap and melting properties, and pleasant cooling effect (particularly for mint-flavoured chocolate products).
- The cooling effect can be masked by using mixtures with inulin, isomalt or maltitol.
- Higher conching temperatures are possible, resulting in enhanced flavour development.
- Tooth-friendly milk chocolate can be made with normal lactose-containing milk powder.
BEVERAGES
Applications: Carbonated soft drinks; dairy and soy drinks; energy drinks, frozen beverages, functional and flavoured water, juice, powdered beverages, RTD coffee, RTD tea, smoothies, sports drinks
Benefits:
- Clean, sugar-like taste
- Works well with high intensity sweeteners
- Enhanced body and mouth feel
- Optimal freezing point depression
- Excellent heat and acidity characteristics
- Does not raise blood glucose or insulin levels