Concentrations of Monosaccharides and Disaccharides in Commercial Sweet Snacks

Abstract

The intakes of monosaccharides and disaccharides constituents by the Japanese are not known due to a lack of Japanese food composition databases for them. In a previous study, we reported the data for 42 commercial beverages and chilled desserts and 29 homemade snacks. In this study, for 64 common types of sweet snacks, we collected 5 samples of each snack from 5 different companies and measured glucose, sucrose, fructose and lactose by the enzymatic method. The sample size of this study was rather small for the establishment of the reliable data and more samples are required to be analyzed.