The invention relates to the technical field of
sugar alcohol preparation, and discloses a preparation method of high-purity crystalline
maltitol, which comprises the following steps: firstly, by taking
corn starch milk as a
raw material, preparing ultrahigh-content
maltose syrup with the
maltose content of more than or equal to 91%, the wheat triose content of less than or equal to 0.4% and the glucose content of less than or equal to 4% through an
enzyme conversion method; carrying out
hydrogenation reaction on the syrup by adopting a
Raney nickel catalyst, and controlling the hydrogenation
side reaction to be 2% or below, so as to obtain hydrogenated liquid with
maltitol content of more than or equal to 88%; and then, a
pigment separation procedure in a traditional process is omitted, and the hydrogenated liquid is directly subjected to decoloration,
ion exchange,
evaporation concentration,
crystallization,
centrifugation and
drying treatment to finally prepare crystalline
maltitol. According to the method, by screening a specific compound
enzyme system and finely regulating the pH value and
temperature control environment of a saccharification
reaction system, the generation of
maltose is effectively promoted, and side reactions such as excessive
hydrolysis of glucose and reverse synthesis of
trisaccharide are inhibited at the same time, so that the high-purity
maltose syrup precursor is obtained.