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L-Arabinose market opportunity insight
Created on 2024.10.16
Shanghai has started to pilot the implementation of health tips for sugar-sweetened drinks, guiding consumers to "read the nutrition table" and choose drinks rationally through red, orange, and green color labels. With the growing global focus on sugar intake and the trend of sugar reduction, many sugar substitute materials have emerged as new "leading roles".
L-arabinose is one of them.
L-arabinose sugar market opportunity insight
L-arabinose is a type of five-carbon monosaccharide, originally derived from gum Arabic. It appears as white slender needle-like crystalline powder at room temperature, odorless, easily soluble in water, with a sweetness level of 50%-60% of sucrose. It is not readily absorbed by the human body, making it a low-energy sweetener. L-arabinose is commonly found in fruits and coarse grain shells in the form of heteropolysaccharides. It exhibits high acid/thermal stability and unlike many other sugar substitutes, it can undergo Maillard and caramelization reactions. It also possesses good processing characteristics. When mixed with sucrose in a specific ratio, this blend can serve as a 1:1 replacement for white granulated sugar.
L-arabinose has been approved as a new resource food since 2008. Now the industrialized production of L-arabinose, mostly using corncob and agricultural product straw as the main raw materials.
From the application point of view, L-arabinose is used in many fields: first, substitute sugar products. For example, in 2020, RT-Mart has successively launched 38 L-Arabinose series products in its stores nationwide; Second, it is used as a prebiotic. In the past two years, the raw material has been widely used as a prebiotic in intestinal health. Both sugar substitute and intestinal health are the market with a larger scale, and L-Arabic sugar is expected to share more market share.
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L-arabinose product application case:
L-arabinose is widely used in the food industry as a low-calorie sweetener. It can be used in various products such as beverages, dairy products, and baked goods to provide sweetness without adding extra calories. Additionally, L-arabinose has been studied for its potential health benefits, including its prebiotic effects on gut health.
Product: L-Arabinose Black Coffee Beverage
Solid beverage
Ingredients: Black coffee, Bisporus mushroom, L-arabinose, compound probiotics, inulin, theaflavin, etc.
Features: The combination of L-arabinose and coffee, a large and medium-sized drink, also integrates probiotics, inulin, etc., can bring consumers more healthy coffee choices.
L-阿拉伯糖 + 胶原蛋白产品 -> L-arabinose + collagen products
Powder
Ingredients: Egg shell membrane, a variety of collagen, L-arabinose, apple cider vinegar, Evocine, Asiaticum extract, etc.
Product features: Through the combination of L-arabinose with a variety of sources of collagen, apple cider vinegar, etc., to achieve a variety of health support, breaking through the previous types of L-Arabinose products, explore more possibilities.
Insight
Up to now, the total number of notes on the Red Book platform for L-arabinose is 5,900+ articles. Based on the platform's content, it is evident that consumers who have some understanding of L-arabinose have a clear understanding of the direction of intestinal health and sugar intake management of L-arabinose. At the same time, it is also worth noting that milk tea brands, including the addition of L-arabinose to other end products and L-arabinose table sugar, have driven consumers' awareness of this raw material, such as Yingtea, Lele tea, and so on.
In the long run, L-arabinose has good application potential as a prebiotic in many markets, and this feature can help the raw material get involved in more end-product directions, such as oral beauty and weight management mentioned earlier. Its potential is still worth further exploration.
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