PREPARATION OF SWEETENER TO PROMOTE MULTIPLICATION OF LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS FROM MOLASSES OF SUGAR BEET

摘要

PURPOSE:The titled sweetener comprising raffinose and an oligosaccharide mainly, capable of multiplicating useful bacteria in the intestines even if human takes it, by converting sucrose in molasses of sugar beet with a specific enzyme into a fructooligosaccharide, treating it with an ion exchange resin. CONSTITUTION:Molasses of sugar beet containing raffinose is treated with fructosyltransferase contained in immobilized mold of Aureobasidum pullulans AHV9549, so that sucrose in molasses is converted into fructooligosaccharide. The prepared saccharide solution is treated with a Ca type strongly cacidic cation exchange resin, to give the aimed sweetener comprising fructooligosaccharide and raffinose as main components.