Glycerine, is a naturally occurring sugar alcohol compound. Glycerine helps prevent sugar crystallization, adds smoothness and sweetness to many food and beverage products, serves as a humectant, solvent and preservative, and more.
Sometimes spelled glycerin and referred to as glycerol, it is a simple polyol and sugar alcohol that functions well as a flavor carrier. The ingredient helps prevent sugar crystallization and adds smoothness and sweetness to many food and beverage products. It also serves as a humectant, solvent and preservative.
Its technical versatility is a unique combination of physical and chemical properties. Glycerine readily dissolves in water, making it ideal for water-based formulations. Represented by the chemical formula C3H8O3, its molecular structure is composed of three carbon atoms, eight hydrogen atoms and three oxygen atoms, which allows it to retain moisture well. It is also odourless, colourless and has a high viscosity and boiling point (290 degrees Celsius).
Pack Sizes:
- 1L / 1.25 Kg
- 5L / 6.25 Kg (SAVE 30% OFF 1L Price)
- 20L / 25.2 Kg (SAVE 46% OFF 1L Price)
Product Features:
- 100% VG, Food/Pharmaceutical Grade
- British Pharmacopoeia (BP)
- 100% Food Grade
- Pure 100% Kosher USP food grade glycerine.
This product conforms to USP and FDA specifications and can be used in food, beverage, and medical applications and are suitable for use in:
- No Lo Alc Beverages to add body and mouthfeel
- Spirits to reduce the harshness, add mellowness and improve mouthfeel.
- Liqueurs to add viscosity or thickness without adding sweetness while also removing 'bite' from the actual spirit or vodka being used in your liqueurs or schnapps
- Food products - For example, glycerin can act as a preservative and sweetener in food and drinks. Additionally, manufacturers may also add glycerin as a humectant, meaning to help food retain moisture.
- Hand Sanitiser
Applications:
Glycerine has seemingly endless applications in numerous industries — primarily in the food and beverage industry. A quality organic version should easily absorb concentrated flavourings and distribute them evenly, providing consistent taste in product formulations.
The ingredient is used to create and preserve botanical extracts, such as lavender and rosemary. However, it should be noted that while glycerine and other glycols can render some organic molecules inert, they do not provide broad-spectrum protection against mold, bacteria, fungi, etc.
The ingredient acts as a solvent for flavours and food colours in soft drinks and confections, and as a humectant—a substance used to reduce the loss of moisture—in dried fruits, nutrition and energy bars, candy, cakes and casings for meats and cheese.
Occurring naturally in fermented foods and beverages, such as beer, honey, vinegar and wine, glycerine contains slightly more calories per gram than sugar and is 60-75% as sweet
Occurring naturally in fermented foods and beverages, such as beer, honey, vinegar and wine, glycerine contains slightly more calories per gram than sugar and is 60-75% as sweet.
The substance is a major player when it comes to the world of beverages—alcoholic and otherwise. When conducting his famous studies on fermentation in 1885, Louis Pasteur found that 3.5% of the sugars in alcoholic fermentation are converted to glycerine.
Since the 19th century, the sugar alcohol has been used to form base flavours of liquors and liqueurs and as a vehicle in making flavours for stronger drinks such as gin, essence of cognac, essence of rock and rye whiskey and artificial Scotch flavours. It also shows up during the preparation of the base extract of soft drinks as well as fountain syrups.
Glycerine’s flavor-carrying abilities are most clearly displayed in vanilla and citrus flavours, coffee, fruit and spice extracts, and chocolate syrups, where they help improve the body and smoothness. Flavor pastes and powders often contain the simple polyol compound, as it is an excellent solvent for flavor and taste materials present in natural products, like coffee beans. And glycerine is used all the way down (or up) to the corks in wine bottles, as it helps maintain the flexibility of the cork, ensuring a solid seal.
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