The invention belongs to the technical field of
sugar alcohol preparation, and relates to a preparation method of
anhydrous lactitol crystals with controllable
granularity, which comprises the following steps: putting a
lactitol concentrated solution with the
refraction of 80-82% and the temperature of 75-80 DEG C into a crystallizer, and then cooling at the
cooling rate of 0.5-1 DEG C / min; when the temperature is reduced until crystals are separated out, cooling is stopped, the current temperature is maintained for 1-4 h, then the
cooling rate is adjusted to be 1-1.5 DEG C / min, and cooling continues; when the temperature is reduced to 20-30 DEG C, stopping cooling, and maintaining the current temperature to grow the
crystal for 1-3 hours to obtain massecuite; centrifuging the massecuite to obtain wet
sugar; feeding the wet
sugar into an air dry oven,
drying for 1 hour with hot air at the temperature of 50-60 DEG C, slowly heating to 85-90 DEG C at the speed of 5-10 DEG C / h, staying for 1 hour, slowly heating to 105-115 DEG C at the speed of 5-10 DEG C / h, and staying for 1 hour again, so as to obtain the
anhydrous lactitol crystal. The
anhydrous lactitol is prepared by adopting gradient cooling
crystallization and gradient heating
drying modes, the anhydrous lactitol
crystal with controllable
particle size distribution is obtained, and the production difficulty is greatly reduced.