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Intense sweetener

Nowadays sugar free food are very much popular because of their less calorie content. So food industry uses various intense sweeteners which are low in calorie content instead of high calorie sugar. The growing consumer interest in health and its relationship with diet has led to a considerable rise in the demand for low calorie fat products. Intense sweeteners are many times sweeter than regular sugar.

Intense sweeteners are also known as artificial sweeteners or synthetic sugar substitutes. In most cases they’re prepared synthetically from chemicals or naturally occurring substances, like neohesperidin DC.

However, it’s not always right! Some intense sweeteners are occurred naturally, like mogrosides and steviosides.

Neohesperidin DC ("NHDC" for short, also know as Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone,) is a low-calorie intense sweetener derived from neohesperidin, a flavonone extracted from citrus fruit, with a sweetness of 1500 to 1800 times as that as sucrose. Neohesperidin DC could also be used as bitter taste masking additive (bitterness masking agents) in dietary supplements and feed additives, to reduce bitterness or metal taste or other off-notes of animal feed, or improve taste profiles of certain foods and drinks.

NHDC could be applied to formulations of candy, chewing gum, yoghurt, beverage, dessert, ice cream, toothpaste, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products, in combination with other sweeteners, to obtain synergistic effects.

Lianyuan Kang Biotech is a leading company specialized in development and marketing of citrus ingredients and related derivatives, and has been granted self-management import and export right ever since its establishment. Kang Biotech is the first whole chain citrus research and processing enterprise located in China.

The company is located at Dongxuan village, Lianyuan city of Hunan province, beside the Lian river and at the foot of Xuefeng mountains, one of the largest citrus cultivating zone of China, which yields more than 10% of citrus fruit of this country.

http://www.extract-citrus.com/