Product Description
-tagatose is a carbohydrate occurring in small amounts in several foods. The solubility in water is approximately 580 g/L at room temperature. As a ketohexose, tagatose reacts in foods in browning reactions like other ketohexoses, for example, fructose.
In the European Union, tagatose is approved as a novel food. In the United States, tagatose has GRAS status and it is also approved in many other countries.
Tagatose is used as a sweetening agent in beverages, foods, and pharmaceutical applications. A 10% solution of tagatose is about 92% as sweet as a 10% sucrose solution. It is a low-calorie sugar with approximately 38% of the calories of sucrose per gram. It occurs naturally in low levels in milk products. Like other sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose), it is also used as a bulk sweetener, humectant, texturizer, and stabilizer, and may be used in dietetic foods with a low glycemic index.
Product Name | D-tagatose |
CAS | 87-81-0 |
MF | C6H12O6 |
MW | 180.16 |
EINECS | 201-772-3 |
Product Categories | Basic Sugars (Mono & Oligosaccharides); Biochemistry; Sugars; Tagatose; Dextrins, Sugar & Carbohydrates; Carbohydrate LibraryCarbohydrates; Carbohydrates; Carbohydrates A to; Carbohydrates P-ZBiochemicals and Reagents; Metabolic Libraries; Metabolomics; Monosaccharide; Carbohydrates & Derivatives; Intermediates & Fine Chemicals; Pharmaceuticals; carbohydrate |
Mol File | 87-81-0.mol |
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