Do you know how consumable glucose is produced?
Extracted from grapes? NO, NO, NO, although glucose was first separated from grapes, but there are more impurities in grapes, grape raw materials are also very expensive, and it is very uneconomical to extract and eat glucose from grapes.
In modern industrial production, glucose is produced by starch hydrolysis. We all know that starch is made up of countless monosaccharides, and when acids or corresponding hydrolases are encountered, this polymer will continue to decompose and release some sugars, including glucose, maltose, pan sugar and dextrin. If the conditions are suitable and the hydrolysis time is long enough, you will eventually get a product with a high glucose content.
Starch hydrolysis to produce glucose is initially used acid solution, which requires high energy consumption, long reaction time, low production safety, and the final treatment of the remaining acid is also more troublesome. Now, glucose production has been widely used amylase and glycase combined production of the dual enzyme method.
Add a small amount of amylase when mixing the raw material, mix evenly, spray liquefaction can get a large amount of dextrin, cool down to the right temperature when adding glycosylase, continue enzymatic digestion, you can get glucose, in order to get more glucose faster, we often use the Prolanase and glycase mixed use.
The production of glucose by double enzyme method only needs to be maintained for several minutes when spraying liquefaction at a temperature of more than 100 ° C, and the saccharification temperature only needs to be about 60 ° C, the conditions are relatively mild, improving safety, and the production efficiency of the double enzyme method is high, and a production cycle can be completed in a few hours.
It is precisely because of the high efficiency, safety and environmental friendliness of biological enzymes, the production of glucose by dual enzyme method has been widely promoted, which has greatly reduced the production cost of glucose and become the most important method of glucose production in modern times.
After the production of glucose, the application of isomerases, but also the production of fructose, mannose, these sugars and sucrose, has become an important cornerstone raw materials for the food and beverage industry.