Methods and systems for processing sugar mixtures and resultant compositions
View Patent ↗A method including: (a) selectively reacting a first sugar in a mixture which includes at least one second sugar to form a product mixture comprising a product of said first sugar; (b) separating said product of said first sugar from said product mixture; and (c) separating at least one of said at least one second sugar from said product mixture.
1. A sugar composition comprising:
(a) glucose;
(b) at least one additional monomeric sugar;
(c) an alpha-bonded diglucose or a beta-bonded diglucose; and
(d) an oligosaccharide comprising a xylose-containing oligomer.
2. The sugar composition of claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one additional monomeric sugar is xylose;
the alpha-bonded diglucose is maltose, isomaltose, trehalose, or a combination thereof; and
the beta-bonded diglucose is gentiobiose, sophorose, cellobiose, or a combination thereof.
3. The sugar composition of claim 2 , comprising:
(a) 0.001%-5%, based on the total weight of the composition, of glucose;
(b) 0.01%-20%, based on the total weight of the composition, of xylose;
(c) at least 1000 PPM, based on the total weight of the composition, of the alpha-bonded or beta-bonded diglucose; and
(d) 0.001%-10%, based on the total weight of the composition, of the oligosaccharide.
4. A sugar composition comprising:
(a) a first sugar, wherein the first sugar is glucose; and
(b) a second sugar, wherein the second sugar comprises a mixture of a pentose, a disaccharide, and an oligosaccharide,
wherein:
the pentose is xylose, xylulose, lyxose, ribulose, arabinose, or a combination thereof;
the disaccharide is trehalose, gentiobiose, kojibiose, nigerose, sophorose, laminarobiose, or a combination thereof; and
the oligosaccharide is a xylose-containing oligomer.
5. The sugar composition of claim 4 , comprising:
(a) 0.01%-20%, based on the total weight of the composition, of xylose;
(b) 0.00 1 %-40%, based on the total weight of the composition, of the oligosaccharide;
(c) 0.001%-5%, based on the total weight of the composition, of glucose; and
(d) at least 1000 PPM, based on the total weight of the composition, of the alpha-bonded or beta-bonded diglucose.
6. A sugar composition comprising:
(a) 0.01%-20%, based on the total weight of the composition, of xylose;
(b) 0.001%-10%, based on the total weight of the composition, of oligosaccharide, wherein the oligosaccharide comprises a xylose-containing oligomer;
(c) 0.001%-5%, based on the total weight of the composition, of glucose; and
(d) at least 1000 PPM, based on the total weight of the composition, of alpha-bonded or beta-bonded diglucose.