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US 12,063,945 B2Granted
Chocolate products, ingredients, processes and uses
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsDaniel Festring, Beatrice Kuschel, Joselio Batista Vieira
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Abstract
The present invention provides the use of a composition obtainable from the pulp of a plant in the theobroma genus or an extract of said pulp, as an ingredient in a chocolate product.
Claims8
A chocolate product comprising pulp from a plant in the theobroma genus or an extract of pulp from a plant in the theobroma genus, wherein
- the pulp or extract of the pulp comprises a sugar component between 20.0% and 85.0% by weight based on the total weight of the pulp or extract of the pulp, the sugar component comprises monosaccharides, disaccharides and oligosaccharides, the sugar component comprises less than 90.0% by weight of glucose and fructose based on the total weight of the sugar component, and the pulp or extract of the pulp has been treated with a pectinase and/or a cellulase to reduce the polysaccharide content and treated to adjust the pH to between 4.0 and 7.0;
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- the chocolate product comprises the pulp or extract of the pulp between 15% and 65% by weight based on the total weight of the chocolate product.
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