Listing ID#10183560
CategoryFood & Beverage
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Xylose is a Food & Beverage product. Key specs — Brand: Healtang; Origin: Jinan, China.
Product Description
Chemical name: aldopentose
English name Xylose. D-xylose, wood sugar;
Chemical formula: C5H10O5; appearance: white crystal powder. The product is an aldopentose obtained by hydrolyzing plants rich in hemicelluloses, such as sawdust, rice straw and corn cobs, with right optical rotation and mutarotation. Melting point: 147℃-151℃. Specific rotary power: 18.5℃-19.5 ℃, density 1.525, relative molecular weight 150.3, dissolubility 125g/100ml. It can be dissolved in hot ethanol and pyridine easily. Its sugariness is 67% of that of sucrose. Xylose has similar chemical properties as glucose, and it can be reduced to corresponding alcohol, i.e. xylitol, or oxidized into 3-hydroxy glutarate. CAS number: 58-86-6 and 1114-34-7.
English name Xylose. D-xylose, wood sugar;
Chemical formula: C5H10O5; appearance: white crystal powder. The product is an aldopentose obtained by hydrolyzing plants rich in hemicelluloses, such as sawdust, rice straw and corn cobs, with right optical rotation and mutarotation. Melting point: 147℃-151℃. Specific rotary power: 18.5℃-19.5 ℃, density 1.525, relative molecular weight 150.3, dissolubility 125g/100ml. It can be dissolved in hot ethanol and pyridine easily. Its sugariness is 67% of that of sucrose. Xylose has similar chemical properties as glucose, and it can be reduced to corresponding alcohol, i.e. xylitol, or oxidized into 3-hydroxy glutarate. CAS number: 58-86-6 and 1114-34-7.
　　 Xylose is the main material of xylitol in China, and xylose has adopted as a non-caloric sweetener by Japan in 1960s.
　　 Application: it can be used in dyeing and tanning, or a sweetener for diabetics. It is a non-caloric sweetener, additive for meat dish, oil antioxidant, caramel material, various perfume materials, intestinal adjusting agent, hygroscopicity material, materials for medical and industrial use, and feed additive. It has been listed into Catalogue of Well-known Products Intensively Supported by Eleventh-Five Year Plan, just as xylitol.
