Isomalt - Magic Pearls

Available from Chef Shop when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Essential Pantry Isomalt Sugar-1 lb Isomalt powder is made from sucrose and looks much like table sugar. It is a mixture of two sugar alcohols: gluco-manitol and gluco-sorbitol. But isomalt powder contains neither sugar nor alcohol. Sugar alcohols can be found in fruits and vegetables naturally, but for commercial purposes, sugar alcohols are made from other carbohydrates like sucrose, glucose, and starch. Isomalt is about half as sweet as sugar, and it has only 2 calories per gram. Isomalt can