Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives in Food Technology [Hardcover]

Helen Mitchell (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405134348 | ISBN-13: 978-1405134347 | Publication Date: July 25, 2006 | Edition: 1

Sugar replacement in food and beverage manufacture no longer has just an economic benefit. The use of ingredients to improve the nutritional status of a food product is now one of the major driving forces in new product development. It is therefore important, as options for sugar replacement continue to increase, that expert knowledge and information in this area is readily available.

Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives in Food Technology provides the information required for sweetening and functional solutions, enabling manufacturers to produce processed foods that not only taste and perform as well as sugar-based products, but also offer consumer benefits such as calorie reduction, dental health benefits, digestive health benefits and improvements in long term disease risk through strategies such as dietary glycaemic control. Part I of this comprehensive book addresses these health and nutritional considerations. Part II covers non-nutritive, high-intensity sweeteners, providing insights into blending opportunities for qualitative and quantitative sweetness improvement as well as exhaustive application opportunities. Part III deals with reduced calorie bulk sweeteners, which offer bulk with fewer calories than sugar, and includes both the commercially successful polyols as well as tagatose, an emerging functional bulk sweetener. Part IV looks at the less well-established sweeteners that do not conform in all respects to what may be considered to be standard sweetening properties. Finally, Part V examines bulking agents and multifunctional ingredients. Summary tables at the end of each section provide valuable, concentrated data on each of the sweeteners covered. The book is directed at food scientists and technologists as well as ingredients suppliers.

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"Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives in Food Technology provides the information required for sweetening and functional solutions, enabling manufacturers to produce processed foods that not only taste and perform as well as sugar-based products, but also offer consumer benefits such as calorie reduction, dental health benefits, digestive health benefits and improvements in long term disease risk through strategies such as dietry glycaemic control." (Food & Drink Technology, June 2006)

"This book provides a comprehensive overview of sweetening and bulking solutions and the nutritional enhancement of foods. Manufacturers should find it a key source of information when it comes to the production of appealing low sugar, no added sugar, sugar free, reduced calorie, high fibre, low glycaemic and tooth-friendly food products with a range of corresponding consumer health benefits." (European Baker, May 2006)

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Sugar replacement in food and beverage manufacture no longer has just an economic benefit. The use of ingredients to improve the nutritional status of a food product is now one of the major driving forces in new product development. It is therefore important, as options for sugar replacement continue to increase, that expert knowledge and information in this area is readily available.

Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives in Food Technology provides the information required for sweetening and functional solutions, enabling manufacturers to produce processed foods that not only taste and perform as well as sugar-based products, but also offer consumer benefits such as calorie reduction, dental health benefits, digestive health benefits and improvements in long term disease risk through strategies such as dietary glycaemic control. Part I of this comprehensive book addresses these health and nutritional considerations. Part II covers non-nutritive, high-intensity sweeteners, providing insights into blending opportunities for qualitative and quantitative sweetness improvement as well as exhaustive application opportunities. Part III deals with reduced calorie bulk sweeteners, which offer bulk with fewer calories than sugar, and includes both the commercially successful polyols as well as tagatose, an emerging functional bulk sweetener. Part IV looks at the less well-established sweeteners that do not conform in all respects to what may be considered to be standard sweetening properties. Finally, Part V examines bulking agents and multifunctional ingredients. Summary tables at the end of each section provide valuable, concentrated data on each of the sweeteners covered. The book is directed at food scientists and technologists as well as ingredients suppliers.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (July 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405134348
• ISBN-13: 978-1405134347
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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After 30 years of working only with sugar and corn syrup to make candy and chocolate items, I had to face the needs of people needing light and diabetic products because the market is more serious than ever.
This book, though sometimes repeat the functional properties of some ingredients like polyols from one chapter to another, turned out to be exactly what I needed in terms of a very good and quick guide featuring manufacturing methods, physiological properties, chemistry and uses of the most important alternatives to sugar, even providing formulas in some instances.I also use it as a reference book for my College "Food Chemistry-Confectionery technology" class.