Obesity has become a problem in the developed world. Special sweetener can increase the sweetness of foods and beverages but with much less calories, which is also beneficial for diabetes.
For example, rhamnose is a methyl pentose sugar and has properly been classified as one of the rarer sugars. Rhamnose is widely used in the flavor industry as a starting material for the production of furanones(Natural Strawberry Furanone, or Furaneol), as well as the starting raw material in reaction flavors developed during the preparation of various foods such as bread, grilled meats, functional beverage etc. Neohesperidin is up to 1000 times as sweet as sucrose. it has an intense cooling effect on the tongue and licorice-like, bitter off-tastes. Neohesperidin has been approved as a sweetener by the European Union and is only approved as a flavor enhancer.
Stanford Chemicals offers a series of natural sweeteners to research institutes, colleges and universities, pharmaceutical companies and health products companies for research and manufacturing. These products including Luo Han Guo extract, Stevia extract and neohesperidin.