Mexico: Will obesity be resolved? ： produce allulose from fructose?
Matsutani Chemical Industry / Kagawa University / Ingledion
Allulose production: technology development
Matsutani Chemical Industry (Hyogo Prefecture, food manufacturer) has developed production technology for allulose in collaboration with three companies.
In 1991, Kagawa University discovered “a microorganism that produces an enzyme that produces allulose from fructose”.
Matsutani Chemical Industry built a production plant with Ingledion (a major US food ingredients manufacturer) as a six-year project.
Mexico and America: Demand for Allulose
Ingledion had a factory in Mexico, so the factory location was decided in Mexico.
Allulose was approved for sale in Mexico.
In addition, demand for allulose is expected to increase in Mexico and the United States.
Mexico and America: obesity rate
In Mexico, obesity accounts for 72.5%, which is higher than the United States.
Allulose: Features
The factory produces “Allulose”, a rare sugar that exists only in nature.
The biggest feature is that it is sweet but hard to get fat.
The sweetness is about 70% of sugar.
On the other hand, calories are “0.4 kilocalories per gram and one-tenth of sugar”.
There is also a “report that it has a function to suppress an increase in blood sugar level”.
Future tasks:
There are also problems with rare sugars.
One of them is the high price.
Because the production process is costly, the price is more than 10 times that of sugar.
Ingledion / Zary CEO
He says that prices will go down as sales increase around the world.
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