NHDC Powder

1. Product Introduction

Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone (abbreviated as NHDC), also known as Neohesperidin DC, is a high-quality natural chalcone derivative and an efficient new-type food sweetener. It is mainly synthesized from citrus-derived naringin and hesperidin: raw flavonoids are extracted from citrus peels and fruits, structurally converted into neohesperidin, and finally produced via professional catalytic hydrogenation technology.

NHDC features ultra-high sweetness, fresh and pure taste, and long-lasting aftertaste. It delivers prominent synergistic effects when compounded with sucralose, sugar alcohols, saccharin and other sweeteners. With internationally recognized safety, NHDC has been approved as a legal food additive in multiple countries, with unified usage standards formulated by the U.S. FDA and European EFSA, ensuring safe and reliable application in food, health products, pharmaceuticals and daily chemicals.

2. Core Product Characteristics & Advantages

• Excellent Sweetness Synergy: NHDC has an outstanding synergistic effect with sucralose, sugar alcohols, saccharin and other sweeteners. It can significantly improve overall sweetness purity, reduce sweetener dosage and effectively lower production costs.
• Superior Flavor Modification: It effectively improves sourness, astringency and peculiar aftertaste of beverages and food, optimizing product taste and bringing fresh and clean long-lasting sweetness.
• Powerful Bitterness Masking Effect: Even below the sweetness threshold, NHDC can act on human bitter taste receptors, raise bitterness perception threshold, and deliver far better de-bittering effect than ordinary sweeteners.
• Low-calorie & Healthy: Non-caloric sweetener that will not produce calorie accumulation in the human body. It comes with natural physiological activities including antioxidation, hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering effects.
• Global Safety Certification: Approved for food additive use by FDA and EFSA, with safe and stable properties, suitable for long-term civilian and industrial application.

1. Food sweeteners/sweetness enhancers

Used in combination with sucralose, polyol sweeteners, saccharin, etc., it has a strong synergistic effect, which can increase sweetness, reduce the amount of sweeteners, reduce costs, and at the same time make the sweetness more pure. Widely used in fruit drinks, milk, fruit wine, desserts, baked goods, candies, chewing gum, sauces, low-energy drinks, pickles, vinegar, betel nuts, preserved fruits, etc.

Adding neomethylhesperidin dihydrochalcone to carbonated drinks can improve the sourness, astringency and bad aftertaste of the product. NHDC is added to sugar-free chewing gum and lemon tea in Belgium, NHDC is added to soft drinks in Spain, and NHDC is added to various sugar-free and low-energy foods and raw materials in Switzerland.

2. Sweeteners for functional foods/health products

NHDC powder does not convert calories in the body. It is a low-calorie sweetener and has physiological activities such as hypoglycemic, cholesterol-lowering, and antioxidant. It is especially suitable for use as a sugar substitute in functional foods, health products, dietary supplements and other healthy foods.

3. Drug and cosmetic raw materials

The physiological function of NHDC determines the raw materials that can be used to manufacture pharmaceutical raw materials for lowering blood lipids and lowering blood sugar, hepatoprotective agents and gastric medicines.

4. Bitterness masking agents and flavor modifiers

NHDC can act on bitter taste receptors when it is lower than the sweetness threshold, thereby raising the human threshold for bitterness, and the bitterness removal effect is significantly better than that of ordinary sweeteners.

3. Wide Application Fields

3.1 Food Sweetener & Flavor Enhancer

As a high-efficiency compound sweetener and taste modifier, NHDC is widely added in fruit drinks, dairy products, fruit wine, desserts, baked goods, candies, chewing gum, sauces, low-energy beverages, pickles, vinegar, betel nuts and preserved fruits. It has been widely applied in European markets: added to sugar-free chewing gum and lemon tea in Belgium, applied in various soft drinks in Spain, and used in sugar-free and low-energy food raw materials in Switzerland, greatly improving product taste and market competitiveness.

3.2 Functional Food & Health Care Products

With zero calorie intake and unique hypoglycemic, cholesterol-lowering and antioxidant activities, NHDC is an ideal sugar substitute raw material. It is widely used in functional foods, health supplements and dietary supplements, meeting the health needs of low-sugar, low-calorie and sugar-free crowds.

3.3 Pharmaceutical & Cosmetic Raw Materials

Relying on its lipid-lowering, hypoglycemic, hepatoprotective and gastric-protective physiological activities, NHDC can be used as a core raw material for the research and production of lipid-regulating, blood sugar-lowering, liver-protecting and gastric conditioning drugs, as well as a functional additive for high-end cosmetics.

3.4 Professional Bitterness Masking & Flavor Modification

It is the preferred raw material for masking bitter and astringent tastes in food, beverages and health products, solving the taste defects of functional products, herbal preparations and low-sugar foods, and improving product edible experience.

Reference

[1]. EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF); Younes, Maged; Aquilina, Gabriele; Castle, Laurence; Degen, Gisela; Engel, Karl‐Heinz; Fowler, Paul J; Frutos Fernandez, Maria José; Fürst, Peter; Gundert‐Remy, Ursula; Gürtler, Rainer; Husøy, Trine; Manco, Melania; Mennes, Wim; Moldeus, Peter (November 2022). "Re‐evaluation of neohesperidine dihydrochalcone (E 959) as a food additive". EFSA Journal. 20 (11): e07595. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7595. PMC 9669802. PMID 36406883 

FAQ

Q1: Can I get free NHDC powder samples?

A: Yes, we provide free product samples. Customers only need to bear the corresponding shipping cost.

Q2: What are the core advantages of NHDC compared with ordinary sweeteners?

A: NHDC has stronger sweetness synergy, better bitterness masking effect, purer taste, zero calorie and additional antioxidant and metabolic regulation activities, with higher cost performance and application value.

Q3: What is your product purity and certification?

A: Our NHDC purity reaches 98.86%, fully complies with CP2020 standards, and meets FDA and EFSA food additive safety specifications.

Q4: What is your MOQ and delivery time?

A: Standard MOQ is 1kg. In-stock products can be delivered within 3–5 working days after payment confirmation.

Q5: Do you support customized compound sweetener formulas?

A: Yes, we can provide customized compound formulas according to customer product scenarios to optimize taste and reduce costs.