Hesperidin is a natural sweetener dihydrochalcone after hydrogenation. Its sweetness is 1000 times that of sucrose and it can be used as a functional food. It is a light yellow crystalline powder.
Hesperidin is a drug for the treatment of hypertension and myocardial infarction. It is used as a raw material for pharmaceutical production in the pharmaceutical industry and is one of the main components of the Chinese patent medicine Maitong.