Sucrose thermal oligosaccharide caramel

Sucrose caramels have been produced under anhydrous thermal conditions that are designed to maximize the content of fructose-rich oligosaccharides.100-102 These sucrose thermal oligosaccharide caramels (STOC) have been tested in animals as a nutritional supplement. Improved weight gains and feed conversion, and increased levels of bifidobacteria (see section VIII) were observed in broiler chickens that were fed this supplement.103... 

Fig. 5 General structure of the higher oligomers present in sucrose thermal oligosaccharide caramel (STOC)...

Fourteen DFAs and some oligomers were identified in caramel obtained by thermal treatment of inufin. - Monosaccharides (glucose, fructose), dehydration products (1,6-anhydro-p-D-glucopyranose, 1,6-anhydro-p-D-glucofuranose), disaccharides (gentiobiose and isomaltose), and oligosaccharides were also found in glucose and sucrose caramel. ... 

J. Defaye and J. M. Garcia-Fernandez, Protonic and thermal activation of sucrose and the oligosaccharide composition of caramel, Carbohydr. Res., 256 (1994) C1-C4. 

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