Liquid Glucose

Liquid Glucose 

Liquid glucose is a versatile starch hydrolysate syrup manufactured through complete acid-enzyme hydrolysis of corn or wheat starch, delivering functional sweetness (0.5-0.7x sucrose), humectancy, crystallization prevention, and bodying properties essential for texture control, moisture management, and process stability. In the food industry, it provides cost-effective bulk sweetness with excellent pumpability, heat tolerance up to 140°C during UHT processing, and versatile functionality preventing sugar crystallization in confectionery while extending shelf life through bound water activity depression, ideal for hard candies, bakery jams, and ice cream bases.

Food Industry Applications

• Confectionery: Prevents sucrose crystallization in hard candies, marshmallows, and toffees creating smooth glass-like texture, controls humectancy preventing dry-out or stickiness, provides bodying during high-temperature deposition up to 150°C without darkening.

• Bakery products: Improves moisture retention and shelf life in cakes, breads, and pastries preventing staling through starch retrogradation inhibition, enhances tenderness in cookies and biscuits, stabilizes fruit fillings against rupture during baking at 180-200°C.

• Ice cream and frozen desserts: Prevents lactose crystallization and coarse ice crystal formation creating creamy smooth mouthfeel, improves shape retention during hardening at -30°C, controls meltdown rate extending serving time by 25-30% through increased viscosity.

• Beverages: Provides body and mouthfeel in soft drinks and syrups without fermentable sugars, stabilizes pulp suspensions in nectars preventing sedimentation, heat-stable through aseptic filling maintaining clarity and flavor balance.

• Jams, jellies, and preserves: Reduces setting temperature and cooking time with pectin synergy forming tender gels at 105°C vs 110°C sucrose, prevents skinning and syneresis during ambient storage, maintains fruit piece integrity in high-fruit formulations.

• Sauces and condiments: Thickens and stabilizes ketchup, BBQ sauces, and dressings preventing separation, enhances cling in salad dressings through balanced viscosity, heat-stable during hot-fill processing without flavor caramelization.

Other Industry Applications

In cosmetics, acts as humectant in moisturizers and stabilizer in emulsions; in personal care, provides sweetness in oral rinses; in industrial uses, serves as paper coating adhesive and textile sizing agent.