Fructose Crystalline

Description

1. Product Overview

Fructose Crystalline is a high-purity, food- and industrial-grade crystalline monosaccharide used as a primary sweetening and functional ingredient across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical manufacturing. Its primary industrial use is as a soluble sweetener, humectant, fermentation feedstock, and formulation excipient where predictable solubility, sweetness intensity, and stability are required. The key value proposition is consistent, high-purity crystalline fructose that delivers superior solubility, predictable process behavior, and formulation flexibility—reducing batch variability and downstream processing costs. Strategically, this product supports manufacturers’ needs for reliable ingredient performance, regulatory-compliant sourcing, and scalable supply for large-volume industrial operations.

2. Key Specifications & Technical Characteristics

• Chemical composition: D-Fructose (C6H12O6), crystalline monosaccharide.

• Purity/grade: Typical assay ≥ 99.0% (dry basis); available in industrial, food, and pharma-compatible grades on request.

• Impurities: Total reducing sugars and moisture controlled to industrial benchmarks; heavy metals and specified contaminants tested per customer specification.

• Physical form: Free-flowing crystalline powder.

• Color: White to off-white.

• Particle size: Typical distribution 100–500 µm (custom milling/particle-size specifications available).

• Bulk density: Approx. 0.6–0.8 g/cm³ (tapped bulk density varies by packing and particle size).

• Solubility: Highly soluble in water; rapid dissolution profile enabling consistent blending and dosing.

• Hygroscopicity: Moderate; recommended handling and storage controls to minimize moisture uptake.

• pH (aqueous 10% solution): Typically 3.5–5.0.

• Packaging options: 25 kg multiwall paper/poly bags, 500 kg FIBC (big bags), and ISO tank or hopper-ready bulk for liquid-fructose blends where applicable.

• Shelf life: 24 months under recommended storage (cool, dry, sealed); lot-specific certificates indicate manufacture and expiry dates.

• Documentation: COA, SDS, allergen statement, and supply chain traceability documentation provided with each shipment.

3. Core Industrial Applications

• Food & Beverage manufacturing: Used as a high-intensity sweetener and humectant in beverages, confectionery, bakery fillings, dairy analogs, and low-temperature formulations; improves sweetness profile while enabling sugar-reduction strategies.

• Pharmaceutical & nutraceuticals: Excipient for tablets, syrups, and oral formulations; used as a carrier, stabilizer, and taste-masking agent.

• Fermentation & biotech: Readily metabolized carbon source for yeast and microbial fermentations, improving fermentation kinetics and yield control.

• Specialty chemicals and intermediates: Feedstock for chemical syntheses requiring defined monosaccharide inputs or as a raw material for downstream derivatization.

• Industrial formulation & coatings: Humectancy and rheology modulation in formulations where controlled moisture retention and solubility are required.
  Why it outperforms alternatives: crystalline fructose offers higher relative sweetness per unit mass versus sucrose, predictable solubility and dissolution rates compared with syrups, lower microbial load than liquid feedstocks, and easier handling and dosing versus sticky or viscous sweetener forms—delivering processing efficiency, reduced waste, and tighter product quality control.

4. Competitive Advantages

• Quality consistency: Manufactured under controlled processes with batch-level COA to ensure tight chemical and physical specification adherence.

• Supply reliability: Sourced and produced to support continuous, large-volume contracts with capacity planning and safety-stock strategies to reduce supply disruptions.

• Logistics capability: Flexible packaging (25 kg bags, 500 kg FIBCs, bulk) and containerized loading options for optimized transport and handling; export-ready documentation and freight coordination support.

• Price competitiveness: Structured pricing for bulk buyers with contract-tier discounts, volume rebates, and transparent landed-cost calculations for industrial procurement.

• Sustainability: Options for sustainably sourced feedstock and reduced-waste packaging; supply-chain traceability supports corporate sustainability reporting.

• Technical support: Dedicated commercial and technical service offering specification matching, COA/SDS delivery, regulatory support, and process-integration guidance to accelerate qualification and scale-up.

5. Commercial & Supply Information

• Minimum order quantity (MOQ): BULK 20 MT.

• Loading capacity (MT per container):

  • 20-foot dry container (standard): up to 20 MT (bagged product, typical palletized loading);

  • 40-foot dry container: up to 24–26 MT (bagged, optimized pallet loading);