SUCROLESS™ · D-ALLULOSE · BY HEXICOSE FOODS
Full sugar functionality. A tenth of the calories.
It browns, bulks, sweetens and holds texture the way sugar does, at 0.4 kcal/g and 70% of sugar's sweetness. It can easily replace excess sugar from your current recipes.
70%
Sweetness vs sucrose
0.4
kcal/g (sucrose: 4.0)
1:1
Bulk replacement
≥98.5%
Purity, crystalline
20+
Years of use in Japan
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FSSAI Novel Food approved · Ref 43/Std/PA/FSSAI/2025
Until now, the previous generations of sweeteners have not been good enough or cheap enough to fix it.
One in three Indian adults meets the criteria for metabolic syndrome. Cutting sugar is the easiest to adjust in any recipe to improve nutrition without forcing consumers to give up pleasure.
People do not want a sweetener. They want sweetness. The distinction sounds small, but it has shaped the food industry for a century. Humans are wired to seek out sugar, and for as long as anyone can remember the trade has answered that wiring the only way it knew how: with more sugar, in more things, more cheaply. Sugar is not just sweet. In a biscuit or a chocolate or a mithai it also provides bulk, structure, browning, moisture and shelf life. Take it out and the whole product falls apart. That, more than any failure of will, is why a decade of sugar-cutting has achieved so little.
The standard answer has been to dodge the problem rather than solve it. The results speak plainly. Britain's public health body set the industry a target to cut sugar by a fifth between 2015 and 2019. Confectionery delivered 0.1%, chocolate 0.4%. Almost no sugar left anyone's diet. The niche product sat on the shelf. The hero product sold as briskly as ever.
Allulose works to varying degrees across many applications.
Ten real-world examples, each a significant, functional reduction that moves a product down the front-of-pack scale - and into a claim regulators can accept and customers appreciate.
These are not small tweaks. They are functional reductions that move products from red into amber - and to the edge of green - while preserving the eating experience people actually buy. Allulose does the physical work sugar does, so reformulation stays practical in the factory.
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It has all the sweetness, bulking, caramelisation, texturisation, crystalline structure, preservative properties, and osmotic potential of sucrose.
Allulose is a monosaccharide, the same family as glucose and fructose, found in figs, raisins and wheat. The sweetness rises at the same speed, peaks the same way, and finishes clean. No bitter tail. No cooling effect. No off-notes.
The body does not metabolise it and therefore has a dietarily insignificant amount of calories.Sweetness is the easy part. Predictability is the rest.
Allulose stands in for sucrose across browning, bulk, freezing point, and stability and behaves the same way batch after batch.
Allulose browns through the Maillard reaction, the same chemistry that gives sugar its colour and caramel its flavour. It bulks one-to-one with sucrose, so dry ratios hold and the formula does not have to be rebuilt. It depresses the freezing point, which is why ice cream made with allulose stays scoopable from the freezer. It is stable from pH 3 to 8, through UHT processing at 140°C, through baking, through conching. It dissolves in cold water at over three times its weight. It does not crystallise out, does not separate, does not fight the formula.
Erythritol has bulk, but the function is poor. It does not dissolve well, it crystallises in the fridge, in a cheesecake it sinks to the bottom. So even at commodity prices, formulators keep looking for something better.
Examples of where allulose works better.
Every category has a default, and a reason that can fall short. Here is what allulose can displace by category and make reformulation easier.
| Application | Use Level | Today's Default | Where It Falls Short | What Allulose Holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoghurt, set and stirred | 5 to 12% | Stevia or sucralose blends | Bitter tail; thins the set; no body | Holds viscosity; stable at pH 4.2 to 4.6 |
| Flavoured milk and UHT | 4 to 8% | Sucralose, acesulfame-K | Artificial top-note; no body | Clean dissolution; holds through UHT |
| Ice cream and frozen dessert | 5 to 10% | Erythritol, maltitol | Cooling effect; freezes hard; crystallises in the tub | Lowers freeze point; stays scoopable |
| Paneer-based mithai | 8 to 15% | Maltitol or jaggery swaps | Digestive load; no clean browning at cook temperature | Browns at lower temperatures; bulks 1:1 |
| Bakery and wafers | 10 to 25% | Erythritol, maltitol | Weak colour; grit; cooling in the bite | Controls water activity; natural colour; low moisture pickup |
| Beverages | 3.5 to 8% | Sucralose, acesulfame-K | Artificial taste; no clean-label story | Stable across the pH range; clean label |
The new 'clean label'
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For most of the last fifty years, alternative sweeteners have been sold on what they are not: not sugar, not fattening, not glycaemic. The argument was negative. Allulose is the first that lets food companies make a positive argument. It is a sugar. It tastes like sugar. It works like sugar. It just happens to carry almost no calories.
The Japanese have used allulose across two thousand SKUs for two decades. American brands like Chobani, Quest and Magic Spoon have built whole product lines on it. India is now open.
Almost one in three Indian adults has metabolic syndrome. Sugar is the easiest lever in any recipe to address this - and allulose lets you pull it without sacrificing taste or texture.What you get from Hexicose.
We are a Mumbai-based ingredient distributor with a purpose to help manufacturers to reduce sugar in any recipe.
FSSAI approved D-Allulose as a Novel Food (Form-II, Ref 43/Std/PA/FSSAI/2025) on 24 December 2025. Six approvals are now active in India. We are working on using allulose as a platform for wider market opportunities.
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