Study of Sucrose Fatty Acid Ester Applications in Different Industries

Sucrose fatty acid ester is a nonionic surfactant, which is nonaggressive with skin, biocampatible and biodegradable. Thus this surfactant has extensive applications in several industries including the food, cosmetics, pharmacy, anti-microbial detergents, insecticides and pesticides in agriculture. It has been also applied in the production and stabilization of nanostructured particles. Sucrose esters are produced from sugar and fatty acids, which are cheap, accessible and renewable sources of material. Due to the eight positions of esterification in sucrose, a wide range of physical, chemical and biological properties could be created. These differences are mainly possible through changing the degree of substitution and chain length of fatty acids.