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  2. Polydextrose - Wikipedia

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    Polydextrose is commonly used as a replacement for sugar, starch, and fat in commercial beverages, cakes, candies, dessert mixes, breakfast cereals, gelatins, frozen desserts, puddings, and salad dressings. Polydextrose is frequently used as an ingredient in low-carb, sugar-free, and diabetic cooking recipes.

  3. Glucose syrup - Wikipedia

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    Glucose syrup on a black surface. Glucose syrup, also known as confectioner's glucose, is a syrup made from the hydrolysis of starch. Glucose is a sugar. Maize (corn) is commonly used as the source of the starch in the US, in which case the syrup is called "corn syrup", but glucose syrup is also made from potatoes and wheat, and less often from barley, rice and cassava.

  4. Maltitol - Wikipedia

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    Maltitol is a disaccharide produced by hydrogenation of maltose obtained from starch. Maltitol syrup, a hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, is produced by hydrogenating corn syrup, a mixture of carbohydrates produced from the hydrolysis of starch. This product contains between 50% and 80% maltitol by weight.

  5. Diabetic? These Foods Will Help Keep Your Blood Sugar in Check

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    Apples. The original source of sweetness for many of the early settlers in the United States, the sugar from an apple comes with a healthy dose of fiber.

  6. Corn syrup - Wikipedia

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    Corn syrup is a food syrup which is made from the starch of corn/maize and contains varying amounts of sugars: glucose, maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup is used in foods to soften texture , add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and enhance flavor.

  7. List of syrups - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable syrups. In cooking , a syrup is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals .

  8. Sugar alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Sugar alcohols can be, and often are, produced from renewable resources.Particular feedstocks are starch, cellulose and hemicellulose; the main conversion technologies use H 2 as the reagent: hydrogenolysis, i.e. the cleavage of C−O single bonds, converting polymers to smaller molecules, and hydrogenation of C=O double bonds, converting sugars to sugar alcohols.

  9. List of sugars - Wikipedia

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    Malt extract or malt syrup – a sweet, sticky, brown liquid made from barley ; Maltose [1] – a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond, formed from a condensation reaction; Maltodextrin, maltol [1] – a white powder or concentrated liquid made from corn starch, potato starch, or rice starch. Although it ...