Dextrose (chemical formula C6H12O6), also known as corn gluten, corn sugar, referred to as glucose. Chemical name:
2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanal, English name: Dextrose, Cornsugar, Grapesugar, Bloodsugar. Is the most widely distributed and most important kind of monosaccharide, it is a polyhydroxyaldehyde.
Pure Dextrose is a colorless crystal, sweet but sweet as sucrose (most people can not taste the sweet), soluble in water, slightly soluble in ethanol, insoluble in ether. Natural glucose aqueous solution to the right, it is "dextrose". Dextrose in the field of biology has an important position, is the energy source of living cells and metabolic intermediates, that is, the main energy supply of biological substances. Plants can produce glucose by photosynthesis. In the field of candy manufacturing and medicine has a wide range of applications

1.Industrial Dextrose from starch hydrolysis, 60 years of application of microbial enzyme production of glucose. This is a major innovation that has obvious advantages over acid hydrolysis. In the production of raw materials do not have to be refined, no acid, pressure equipment, and sugar no bitter taste, high sugar yield.
2.Dextroseis used primarily as a nutrient for injection (glucose injection);
3.Dextrose in the food industry can be produced by isomerase fructose, especially fructose 42% fructose syrup, its sweetness with sucrose, has become an important product of the current sugar industry.
4.Dextrose is an indispensable nutrient for metabolism in the body. The heat released by its oxidation is an important source of energy required for human life activities. In the food, pharmaceutical industry can be used directly in the printing and dyeing industry as a reducing agent, in the mirror industry and hot water bottle gall silver plating process commonly used as a reducing agent. Industrial also a large number of glucose as raw material synthesis of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
5.Pharmacological effects: to add the body of water and sugar, with the body fluid supplement, the supply of energy, add blood sugar, cardiac diuretic, detoxification and so on