Novel sweetener containing sucrose and D-psicose

摘要

Object: To provide a homogeneous sugar composition containing sucrose, which is widely used as a sweetener in the food industry, and D-psicose, which has physiological effects such as lowering body fat. Also to provide a food or drink, a drug or quasi-drug, or a cosmetic in which a sucrose mixture that contains D-psicose is used. Configuration: The sugar composition containing sucrose and D-psicose, wherein crystals of the sucrose is coated with the D-psicose in a crystalline or amorphous state. The content of the D-psicose is 1 part by weight or more and 50 parts by weight or less relative to 100 parts by weight of the total weight of the sucrose and the D-psicose.