What are the advantages of sugar alcohols in beverages?

In recent years, functional sweeteners sugar alcohols made of sugar-free yogurt, sugar-free drinks, sugar-free milk powder, sugar-free ice cream and sugar-free fruit juices are gradually coming into the lives of consumers.
Sugar alcohols in protein drinks
Protein beverages, including milk beverages and plant protein beverages, milk beverages refers to fresh milk or dairy products as raw materials, by fermentation or unfermented products made of processing, common cocoa milk, yogurt, and so on.
Vegetable protein beverages are beverages processed from plants with high protein content, such as soy milk, peanut milk, and germ beverages.
Sugar-free milk drinks and sugar-free soy milk are mainly made by replacing sucrose with xylitol and maltitol to make drinks with more health effects for diabetics and people worried about obesity. Such as Mengniu, Yili and other well-known companies launched xylitol sour milk, xylitol yogurt products. Old Bute, Hebei Chengde and other food companies launched xylitol almond milk, peanut milk and other drinks market feedback is good.
The use of maltitol in blended milk beverages not only has no effect on the flavor of yogurt, but also has a unique color and aroma, rich in nutrients, and low caloric energy, stability and water solubility, so maltitol can partially or completely replace sucrose in the production of sugar-free blended yogurt beverages.
Low-heat sugar-free soy milk has delicate taste, good stability, low fat content, high content of protein and dietary fiber and maltitol, so it has the effect of reducing the symptoms of diabetic patients’ “more than three”, losing weight and lowering fat, improving intestinal micro-ecological environment, promoting intestinal peristalsis, preventing constipation, colon cancer and so on, and it is a low heat health soy milk drink for patients with high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. It is suitable for patients with high blood fat, obesity and diabetes to drink low calorie health soybean milk drink.
Practical formula: flavored soybean milk: soybean milk base (containing 8% solids, protein 3.8%) 75%, 5% liquid maltitol, aspartame 0.04%, 2% vegetable oil, cocoa butter 0.2%, cocoa flavor 0.05%, add water to 100%.
Sugar alcohol in tea beverages
In the 1980s, Japan took the lead in the introduction of modern tea drinks, consumer boom continues to this day, with the changes in the consumer situation people expect functional sugar-free tea drinks, the emergence of this, the world’s major manufacturers to speed up the pace of research and development to produce a variety of sugar-free tea drinks, Japan’s Kirin, Suntory company to add erythritol sugar-free tea drinks for the best of them. Erythritol used in tea beverages can significantly reduce its bitter taste, add the amount of recommendations in 0.8% to 2.3%.
In recent years, China’s tea drinks market is growing rapidly, second only to carbonated beverages and drinking water in the beverage industry. At present, Master Kong, unified, Wahaha, Coca-Cola, the original leaf at the forefront of China’s tea drinks market.
In order to expand the position of the enterprise brand in the market, each enterprise is launching new products to occupy the share of the tea beverage market. Among them, Master Kong has launched three new brands of tea drinks: unsweetened green tea, low-sugar Tieguanyin tea, and oolong tea. Unified Enterprises, not to be outdone, has also recently launched a new product – Ice Alcohol Jasmine. Enterprises through the different flavors of tea beverages and tea beverages health as a selling point, so that more and more consumers sought after and love, in order to win a larger market of different tastes of the population.

Iced tea drink formula (according to 1000kg): black tea 4.4kg, citric acid 0.5kg, erythritol 1 ~ 30kg, vitamin C 0.5kg, aspartame appropriate amount, black tea flavor 0.5kg.
Sugar alcohol in the application of solid beverages
Solid beverages refers to sugar (or no sugar), fruit juice (or no juice), plant extracts and other ingredients as raw materials, processed and made into powder, granular or cubic drinkable products after dissolving.
Generally refers to the moisture content of 3% or less, with a certain shape, need to be dissolved before drinking the granular, scaly or powdered drinks. As solid drinks have portable, easy to save, easy to drink, nutritious and other characteristics, so although the solid beverage history is not long, but in the products, varieties, packaging and functionality and other aspects of the rapid development of solid beverages in foreign countries, solid beverages with a 10% annual growth rate, brand awareness such as: United States of America, Tingge (tang) Orange Juice Fruit Juice Powder, United States of America, Kraft (kraft) of instant coffee, the United States Lipton (lip), the United States of America, the United States of America, the United States of America, the United States of America, the United States of America and other countries. Coffee, the United States Lipton (lipton) company’s instant tea, Switzerland, Nestle and so on; in the domestic market, solid drinks market is also favored, especially in recent years, the Zhiqiang walnut powder, southern black sesame paste and other popular market.
And from the current market situation, solid beverages in accordance with the natural, nutritious, back to nature idea, towards the nutritional components, diversified varieties, functional health care, green ingredients direction. And in order to meet the needs of consumers on the beverage tastes, and actively develop milk protein, vegetable protein, fruit and vegetable juices, instant coffee, instant tea and other functional, special solid beverages, the market has launched sugar-free black sesame, sugar-free soy milk and other products, consumer feedback is good.
Sugar alcohol in other beverage applications

With the gradual increase in people’s health awareness, with a certain health, health care function of food and beverage products to become a respected market. Currently on the market, the most well-known is Gadobao herbal tea, which can be called a representative product of plant-based functional beverages.
It can be called a representative product of plant-based functional beverages. Herbal tea adopts chrysanthemum and other herbs as the base material of the beverage, which has the effects of lowering fire, relieving summer heat, removing dampness and clearing heat, and relieving sore throat and fever. It is because of these effects and effective marketing methods that Gadobao jumped to become the leading company in the beverage industry. This also proves that plant-based functional beverages have a broad market, is a major trend in beverage consumption, sugar alcohol products can also join the ranks of the effective combination of the launch of new products to meet market demand.
Sugar alcohol in the beverage application advantages
Xylitol has a cool taste, confirmed by animal testing, long-term intake, the organization of fatty acid synthesis is reduced, and now foreign countries have recommended xylitol for the treatment of obesity, for the control and reduction of body weight. Xylitol is a good physiological activity of all edible sugar alcohols in the species, it is in the prevention of dental caries, does not increase blood glucose value, as diabetic nutrients and sweeteners, showing a more special superiority.
Xylitol is similar to oligosaccharides, but also has the effect of significantly improving gastrointestinal function, can promote the beneficial intestinal flora, that is, the proliferation of bifidobacteria, to improve human immunity. Consumption of xylitol-containing foods or beverages can reduce the salinity in the mucus layer of the respiratory tract, thus preventing respiratory bacterial infections.
Xylitol can be developed into a new type of health food for preventing lung respiratory infections in the elderly and infirm, infants and children, and a sugar-free health drink that improves human immunity and provides nutrients and energy for diabetic patients.
Maltitol has the characteristics of anti-caries, non-glycemic, and has certain fat properties, that is, a certain degree of emulsification and thickening, but also promotes the absorption of calcium, children and the elderly due to insufficient absorption of calcium caused by bone disease has an obvious prevention and treatment effect.
Erythritol, as a new type of natural sweetening filler, has the characteristics of non-moisture absorption, instant solubility, non-caloric (<0.2kcal/g), refreshing taste, anti-caries, high tolerance, non-glycemic, stable processing performance. The characteristics of its effective masking of the aftertaste of other excipients, so that it is more suitable for tea beverages, add high-fold sweetener beverages.

Functional sugar alcohols used in beverage production advantages of the integrated performance in: 1) functional sugar alcohols with anti-caries, low energy, improve intestinal, non-glycemic, hepatoprotective and other efficacy, combined with other nutritional characteristics of the beverage, you can arrive at a very good function of the matching; 2) functional sugar alcohols processing performance is stable, acid-resistant, heat-resistant, will not lose its efficacy in the processing of beverages, and can be very good to maintain its original health functions, do not need to change The original product production process; 3) add the right amount, increase the health function of the product, but also will not have an adverse effect on the taste and flavor of the beverage, high stability of product processing. 4) xylitol, maltitol, erythritol’s functional properties are both common and different, according to the actual product characteristics of the needs of the actual product, they are in accordance with the different ratios with the use of or used individually, or with the use of high-frequency sweeteners, can achieve good results; 5) the functional sugar alcohols are very good in terms of their functionality, and can be used in the processing of drinks. (5) Sugar alcohol beverages diabetics can be assured of drinking, but also for other health care needs of the population to drink.