The kinetic of acid hydrolysis of five commercially available oligofructose samples used as foodingredients has been investigated as a function of the dry matter concentration, reaction pH, andtemperature. The initial fructose release rate is found to be roughly proportional to the inverse of theaverage polymerization degree in number. A pseudo first order kinetic is found with respect to thefructosyl chain end concentration and to the proton concentration. Arrhenius plot is found to reasonablyfit the data in a relatively wide temperature range (7-130
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C). The results allow the estimation of thefructose release rate in many foodstuff processing conditions.Keywords: inulin; oligofructose; acid hydrolysis; fructose