Trehalulose

Unlike isomaltulose, trehalulose strongly resists crystallisation, and forms an amorphous solid when dried. Its sweetness relative to sucrose has been estimated as between 0.4^[8] and 0.7.^[9]

It has a specific rotation of ${\displaystyle [\alpha ]_{D}^{20}=+50}$°.^[1]

In 2020 researchers at the University of Queensland found that some species of stingless bee in Australia, Malaysia, and Brazil produce honey containing between 13% and 44% trehalulose rather than the usual glucose and fructose. The university's findings supported the long-standing claims of Indigenous Australian people that native honey is beneficial for human health.^[10][11] In 2021 the same researchers discovered that the bees convert all sucrose from nectar into trehalulose.^[12]