Product description:Tagatose is a functional sweetener. It is a
naturally occurring monosaccharide, specifically a hexose. It is
often found in dairy products, and is very similar in texture to
sucrose (table sugar) and is *2% as sweet, but with only *8% of the
calories.Tagatose is present in only small amounts in dairy
products. It can be produced commercially from lactose, which is
first hydrolyzed to glucose and galactose. The galactose is
isomerized under alkaline conditions to D-tagatose by calcium
hydroxide. The resulting mixture can then be purified and solid
tagatose produced by crystallization.
