How we scored it
Oligosaccharides built enzymatically from sugar-beet sucrose; sugars/oligosaccharides scored 1.0 per this site's convention.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.
Where it comes from
Manufactured by enzymatic chain-extension of sucrose from sugar beet, producing a mixture of kestose, nystose and related oligosaccharides. Used as a humectant and skin-conditioning agent.
In plain English
A humectant sugar ingredient made by enzymatically linking sugar-beet sucrose into longer chains. It helps skin retain moisture and comes entirely from a natural plant-sugar feedstock.
CosIng definition: Fructooligosaccharides are oligosaccharides produced enzymatically from sugar beets and consist chiefly of kestose, nystose and fructosyl nystose
Structure
(2R,3S,4S,5R)-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolane-2,3,4-triol
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2Fructooligosaccharides. PubChem CID 439709. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES