It is granule or powder with a transparent white brilliant appearance, taste sweet slightly, crystallizes easily and feels pleasantly cool, relative sweet degree 0. 7 Or so, non-caloric, only one of twenty caloric ability compared with cane sugar and one of fifteen caloric ability compared with xylitol.
Erythritol Cannot be degraded by enzyme, so it is very suitable for patients suffering diabetes because of no catabolism. It is also made into low-caloric health food, as the substitute of cane sugar, suitable for patients suffering obesity, hypertension, cardiac disease. Erythritol cannot ferment in colon, so it has the function to proliferate clearly bifido bacterium, avoid gastro enteric discomfort and enhance the immune ability.
Erythritol Resists decayed tooth effectively, caused mainly by streptococcus eroding tooth enamel, because erythritol can not be used by streptococcus, the candies and special tooth purificant made by using erythritol has an active function for children's nonnasality health.
Erythritol Is a new kind of nutrition edulcorator characterizing good thermo-stability, bad accessibility, low ice point; it has broad application fields such as food, medicine, cosmetics, etc. Erythritol is used in food manufacturing such as baking and roasting foods, cakes, dairy produce, chocolate, all kinds candies, dessert, gum, soft drink, ice-cream etc., Which keeps food good in color, sweet-smelling, sapor and prevent foods from deterioration.