Alpha Cyclodextrin Powder

What Is Alpha Cyclodextrin?

Alpha Cyclodextrin Powder (Alpha-CD) is easily soluble in water and propylene glycol, and almost insoluble in ethanol and dichloromethane. It is a ring-structured polymer composed of 6 glucose units, with the polar hydroxyl group facing outward. The core of the ring is hydrophobic and easily binds to various hydrophobic compounds, including free fatty acids. Due to its cavity structure with hydrophobic inside and hydrophilic outside, it is often used as a stabilizer and thickener in the food field. In addition to having the characteristics and uses of other CDs, since the inner cavity size of α-CD is smaller than that of β-CD, it is more suitable for inclusion of small molecules and applications requiring higher CD solubility. Studies in recent years have shown that in addition to being used as a food additive, Alpha-CD can also be used as a dietary fiber to control blood sugar and reduce fat.

Features

• Small cavity, suitable for encapsulating small molecules.
• Relatively low solubility in water, but its compatibility with water can be optimized by appropriate formulation adjustments.
• The internal cavity is relatively hydrophobic, while the exterior is hydrophilic, which enables them to form stable inclusion complexes with various hydrophobic guest molecules.
• Widely regarded as safe, their use in the food industry has been approved by food safety regulators in many countries and regions.

Functions

Regulate the intestine

It is decomposed by normal parasitic bacteria in the intestine and converted into short-chain fatty acids, such as acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid. These substances help inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria and promote the growth of probiotics such as bifidobacteria, thereby improving intestinal health.

Regulate blood sugar

It can prevent the absorption of sugars in the intestine, promote the excretion of sugars after encapsulation, reduce the peak blood sugar after a high-starch meal, and achieve the effect of inhibiting the rise of blood sugar after a meal. Alpha cyclodextrin has a good effect on preventing and improving diabetes, and can be used as an effective blood sugar-lowering health food raw material for patients with hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes to prevent postprandial hyperglycemia.

Regulate blood lipids

It can reduce the intake of dietary fat, reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, increase the levels of adiponectin and leptin, improve the distribution of fatty acids in plasma, and will not affect the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins.

Reduce fat

It can encapsulate excess fat and excrete it from the body, and can also inhibit the absorption of sugar, achieving the effect of reducing weight and losing weight.

Improve the stability of additives

When used in combination with vitamin E, natural pigments, edible flavors and other additives, the stability of additives can be improved, making them easier to store for a long time or keep in food.

Alpha-CD regulates intestinal flora

The role of intestinal probiotics is to support normal microbial flora in the intestine, antagonize pathogens, and adjust the intestine with ecological imbalance back to an ecologically balanced state.

Intestinal ecosystem imbalance is usually caused by the increase or decrease in the number of some bacteria in the small intestine, especially the increase of some aerobic bacteria. In addition, the decrease of beneficial bacteria such as bifidobacteria and Clostridium can also cause intestinal microbial imbalance.

A very small part (about 1% of the intake) can be absorbed from the intestine as metabolites, and most of it occurs in the colon. After being metabolized by the intestinal flora, α-CD is degraded into linear maltooligosaccharides, and then further hydrolyzed and fermented into absorbable short-chain fatty acids to play a beneficial role in the human body.

Preparation process

1. Mix cassava starch and distilled water into a slurry at a concentration of 15%, stir at 85°C for 15 minutes to fully swell the starch granules.

2. Adjust the pH value to 5, add CGT enzyme at a ratio of 200 units per gram of starch, and then add n-decanol accounting for 8% of the starch mass, and react for 6 hours.

3. Separate the n-decanol from the reaction solution by steam distillation.

4. Adjust the temperature to 50°C, add CGT enzyme to a ratio of 400 units per gram of starch; add ethanol accounting for 20% of the starch volume, and then react for 10 hours.

5. Filter the reaction solution directly and collect the filter cake, which includes the complex precipitate formed by ethanol and α-cyclodextrin and the unreacted starch; redissolve the filter cake, remove the ethanol by vacuum distillation, and after the distillation is completed, filter the distillate to remove the unreacted starch to obtain an aqueous solution; evaporate and concentrate the aqueous solution, and place it in a low temperature environment of 2°C to obtain crystals.

How to use?

Food

As a food additive, it improves the taste, color and stability of food.

As an emulsifier and dispersant in food and beverages, it changes the color, aroma, taste and other ingredients in food. It has a certain antioxidant effect, which can delay the oxidation and deterioration of food and extend the shelf life of food.

Daily chemical products

Used as a stabilizer, emulsifier, solubilizer and moisturizer for cosmetics to improve the stability, water solubility and texture of cosmetics. Used to prepare shampoo, conditioner, cream, etc.

Medicine

It can be used as a carrier for drugs to improve the solubility, stability and bioavailability of drugs and reduce the side effects of drugs.

Certificates

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