Mannitol is an alcohol has six, because of dissolution heat, sweet, have oral discomfort, it is more widely used in medicine to sober up, mouth refreshing agent chewable tablets manufactured specifically for its grain-based direct compression of the excipients. Mannitol can be used as the base material of nitroglycerin tablets.
World industrial production of mannitol are two kinds of processes, one based on kelp as raw materials in the production of alginate at the same time, will be submitted after kelp iodine soaking, after repeated Concentration, impurity, from the cross, evaporation concentration, and cooling crystallization derived; Mannitol as a food additives.One is based on sucrose and glucose as raw material by hydrolysis, epimerization and isomerization enzyme, and then hydrogenation. Foodchem kelp extract mannitol has been used for decades, this process is simple, but by the raw material resources, extraction yield, climatic conditions, energy consumption constraints, a long time, its development is restricted.
Mannitol in medicine is a good diuretic to reduce intracranial pressure, intraocular pressure and renal drugs, dehydration, sugar substitutes, also used as tablet excipients and solid, liquid diluent. In the food sector, the goods in the sugar and sugar alcohols in the minimum water absorption, and sweet with a refreshing, for maltose, chewing gum, cakes and other foods of anti-sticking, and as a general anti-sticking pastry flour. Diabetes can also be used with food, fitness and food low calorific value, low-sugar sweetener.
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