Authors: Tom Birger Granström Ken Izumori Matti Leisola
Publish Date: 2007/01/11
Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 273-
Abstract
Xylitol is the first rare sugar that has global markets It has beneficial health properties and represents an alternative to current conventional sweeteners Industrially xylitol is produced by chemical hydrogenation of dxylose into xylitol The biotechnological method of producing xylitol by metabolically engineered yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Candida has been studied as an alternative to the chemical method Due to the industrial scale of production xylitol serves as an inexpensive starting material for the production of other rare sugars The second part of this minireview on xylitol will look more closely at the biotechnological production and future applications of the rare sugar xylitol
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