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Is Palatinose and Isomalt the same thing? If so, then how are they the same / different from each other?
I got confused because there's a definition of Palatinose that says it's also know as Isomaltulose which is like a short of Isomalt.
1 Answer
- ?Lv 77 years ago
Isomaltulose is the chemical name. Chemists have a standard way of naming things.
Palatinose is a trade name. That's the name that a company uses so that you will know it is their product.
It's like the difference between a chicken sandwich and a McChicken. McChicken is McDonald's trade name.
Just to complicate things, chemists actually have more than one naming system. So, by one system it is called isomaltulose. By another system it is called 6-0-α-D-glucopyranosyl-D-fructose.
The bacteria on your teeth cannot metabolize it, so eating it does not cause cavities. This makes it good for chewing gum. But your body can digest it like other sugars. It provides the same number of calories to your body as regular sugars, but it is absorbed and broken down more slowly than sucrose (that's regular sugar, the white stuff in your sugar bowl). This makes it good for diabetics.
You may have already noticed: Chemical names for sugars end in -ose. Glucose. Fructose. Sucrose. Isomaltose.