1. Tagatose is also approved as a tooth-friendly ingredient.2. The resulting mixture can then be purified and solid tagatose produced by crystallization. 3. The galactose is isomerized under alkaline conditions to D-tagatose by calcium hydroxide. 4. SweetGredients was the only worldwide producer of tagatose . 5. He also patented an inexpensive method to make tagatose , an artificial sweetener, in 1988. 6. (triangle ( Tagatose -- Another new one, made from lactose and marketed as Naturlose. 7. Tagatose is a natural sweetener present in only small amounts in fruits, cacao, and dairy products.8. Tagatose has very similar sweetness to sugar while its glycemic index ( GI 3 ) is very low.9. Wrigley Jr . Co . has filed for U . S . and international patents for gums using tagatose . 10. Since it is metabolized differently from sucrose, tagatose has a minimal effect on blood glucose and insulin levels.
