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Mannitol
DescriptionMannitol belongs to the sugar alcohols and is appropriate for diabetics as sugar substitute. It has a sweetening power that is much lower than that of sugar (about 60%).
ApplicationMannitol is applied for different products and fulfills various technological functions such as:
Gene technologyFructose (fruit sugar) is the basic material for the production of mannitol. It is produced from plant starch during the process of the saccharification of starch.
Labelling: starch-based additives are subject to a labelling requirement, if they are directly produced of GM plants (e.g. maize). Whether this also applies to mannitol that results by way of various processing stages of starch and glucose respectively, is legally not clarified explicitly. In practice, it has been established that labelling is not practised. Enzymes and their manner of production generally are not declared on the list of ingredients.
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