Syral Launches Maltilite® Maltitol Syrups
21 September 2006
In order to meet the increasing demand for sugars substitutes, Syral has just launched a new range of Maltitol syrups, MALTILITE®.
Maltitol is the most consumed polyol after sorbitol. It has the same nutritional properties as sorbitol, but offers new functional properties. Bulk sweetener whith a sweet taste and rheology that are very similar to sugar's, MALTILITE® is used in the making of a wide range of sugar free, calorie reduced food, and also food for diabetics. Moreover, MALTILITE® is acariogenic. Thus, it is notably used for the making of sugar free chewing gums.
To design new products formulations, Syral and the Tereos Innovation Department have derived benefit from functional properties of MALTILITE® syrups, combined with other starch based sweeteners, or with Beghin Meiji's prebiotic fibre ACTILIGHT® (short chain fructo-oligosaccharides obtained from sugar). For example, MALTILITE® allows the making of reduced calorie sorbets and ice creams without adding intense sweeteners, because the sweetening power and the viscosity of these syrups are very close to sugar's. Adding ACTILIGHT® is a way to enrich milk desserts and biscuits in fibres, while contributing to calorie reduction.
Syral is one of the leading European companies in the starch-based sweeteners sector, providing customers in the food and pharmaceutical industries with a wide range of glucose syrups, liquid sweetening blends, dried glucoses, maltodextrins, dextrose and polyols produced in facilities designed to meet the most stringent food-safety requirements.
