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Dextrose

Description

Dextrose is a simple sugar, identical to glucose, and serves as a crucial energy source for living beings. It’s essential for carbohydrate metabolism, found naturally in numerous plants and within animals, including humans.

Our dextrose offerings are tailored to a wide array of industry needs. They undergo rigorous quality controls to guarantee their purity and excellence. Our dextrose comes in several grades and forms, ideal for scenarios that demand a swift and dependable energy boost or sweetening agent.

This includes dextrose monohydrate and anhydrous, crafted to meet the particular needs of different industrial applications. Additionally, we provide a variety of packaging options, ranging from small bags to large bulk quantities, ensuring flexibility for all business sizes.

Key Features

  • High Purity: Our dextrose is refined to achieve high levels of purity, ensuring that it meets the stringent requirements of the food and pharmaceutical industries.
  • Energy Source: As a direct form of glucose, dextrose provides an immediate energy source, making it invaluable in nutritional supplements and energy products.
  • Sweetening Agent: With its clean, sweet taste, dextrose is an excellent sweetener for a wide range of food and beverage applications, from baked goods to drinks.
  • Solubility: Dextrose dissolves easily in water, making it versatile for liquid formulations, including beverages, syrups, and injectable solutions.
  • Texture and Stability Enhancer: It helps to improve the texture of various food products and stabilises high-moisture foods by controlling crystallisation and water activity.
  • Fermentation Aid: In brewing and winemaking, dextrose is a preferred sugar source for yeast fermentation, contributing to the alcohol content and flavour profile of the final product.

Applications

  • Food Industry: Used as a sweetener in candies, chocolates, ice creams, and baked goods. It also acts as a preservative to extend the shelf life of packaged foods.
  • Beverage Industry: A key ingredient in soft drinks, sports drinks, and energy drinks, providing sweetness and enhancing energy levels.
  • Pharmaceuticals: Utilized in oral rehydration salts and intravenous solutions and as an excipient in tablets for its energy-providing properties and to improve taste.
  • Nutritional Supplements: Incorporated into energy bars, protein shakes, and sports nutrition products to boost energy and performance.
  • Cosmetics: In skincare and cosmetic products, dextrose functions as a humectant, helping retain skin moisture.
  • Biotechnology and Research: Used as a carbon source in culture media for growing microorganisms, plant tissue cultures, and fermentation processes.
  • Agriculture: Employed in animal feed as a nutritional supplement to enhance energy intake and improve overall animal health.

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