Features
Very easy to apply and dissolve, just add to any recipe the same way that sugar is incorporated.
PAC 171%
POD 74%
Solids 92%
Comes in powder form, of neutral smell and flat sweet taste.
Applications
Must have antifreeze product for ice cream; popular in confectionery, where it is especially useful for the preparation of candies (where it reduces the activity of water).
Essential in brewing and fermentation, as it favors the growth of beneficial bacterial colonies.
Curiosities
Dextrose is an alternative name for D-glucose. Chemically, glucose and dextrose are the same ingredient (monosaccharide glucose), but dextrose is 100% monosaccharide glucose. What is called glucose on the market, then, it’s always a mixture of glucose and other polysaccharides, which is why the DE (Dextrose Equivalent grade) has to be specified in all products called Glucose.
Dosage
6 – 15 gr / Kg
It can be used as a substitute for sugar 1:1 (very useful for all the elaborations we have specified before) but it is commonly recommended (as for the rest of polyols and tec sugars) to use as a replacement for maximum 33% of the sugar with no further changes.
