1. What is lactitol?
A: Lactitol is a disaccharide derived from lactose, prepared by hydrogenating and reducing the glucose base in lactose. Lactitol is a white crystal or crystalline powder.
2. What is the sweetness of lactitol?
A: Lactitol has a low sweetness, only 40% of the sweetness of the same concentration of sucrose.
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of lactitol and other sugar alcohols?
Answer: (1) It has good thermal stability and acid-base stability: lactitol is not easy to decompose, is not easy to change color, and is resistant to acids and alkalis, which is not available in oligosaccharide prebiotics.
(2) Lactitol is not easy to hygroscopic: lactitol is a crystalline powder, in the functional sugar alcohol, lactitol is one of the few sugar alcohols that are not easy to absorb moisture, compared with the generally hygroscopic oligosaccharides, lactitol is less likely to absorb moisture, which is very helpful for product anti-agglomeration.
(3) Lactitol has a mild effect and no side effects: Lactitol is used to treat constipation with good comfort and no adverse reactions, so it is widely used to treat constipation problems in vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children.
(4) Lactitol has a good effect on stomach acid: compared with oligosaccharides, lactitol has better acid resistance and is basically not decomposed in stomach acid, so the retention rate of reaching the large intestine is high and can be used more by probiotics.
4. Is lactitol a prebiotic?
A: As a sweet sugar alcohol, and as an effective proliferative factor of probiotics, lactitol has long been widely used in the fields of digestive tract health, food, and health products at home and abroad; lactitol, as an effective proliferative factor of probiotics, belongs to a kind of prebiotic.
5. Can diabetics eat lactitol?
A: After the human body ingests lactitol, lactitol is not detected in the blood, and the amount detected in the recovered urine is only about 0.5% of the intake, and the amount detected in the feces is negligible, while the short-chain fatty acids and microorganisms in the feces increase, and the lactitol is fermented and utilized by microorganisms in the large intestine, and the calories released are verified to be 8.36kJ/g, about half of the sucrose, which is a low-calorie sweetener. In this way, lactitol can be mixed alone or with other sweeteners to replace sucrose to prepare low-calorie food to meet the needs of obese patients.
6. What is the amount of lactitol?
answer:
(1) Daily recommended dosage for food additives
The product name
Minimum prebiotic dose /g
Daily intake/g
Maximum non-acting amount/g
Lactitol
3.3
6-10
20
(2). Dosage for the treatment of constipation
age
dosage
adult
20-30g/d
Children (1~14 years old)
0.15-0.4g/kg body weight/day
7. Does lactitol have liver protection function?
A: Yes.
8. What are the domestic manufacturers of lactitol?
A: Shandong Lujian Life Technology Co., Ltd., the first production in China, is produced with imported high-quality lactose as raw material.
9. What are the raw materials of lactitol?
A: The raw material is lactose, which is made by hydroreduction reaction.
10. What are the types of lactitol probiotics and what are the effects?
A: Lactitol is a high-powered prebiotic against Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 and Bifidobacterium infantis