What is Fructose?

Special Ingredients Fructose is a simple sugar that occurs naturally in foods such as fruits and vegetables giving fruits their sweet taste. The fine crystalline fructose is 1.2 times sweeter than sugar, allowing for a reduction in the amount of sugar needed to sweeten foods. It offers unique benefits including improved product texture, taste and stability, the mouthfeel of bev-erages and foods and contributes to increased height in baked goods. Fructose is widely used in low-calorie products, flavoured water and milk, yoghurt, baked goods, confectionery, fruit juice and many more. It has a low Glycaemic Index and is widely used as a food ingredient in the food industry. The Glycaemic load per gm for Fructose is 19, table sugar is 65 per gm.