Chewing gum and methods of production thereof
OwnerShama Karu Vaman, Sarah Jayne Prestwood Pearson +1inventors
InventorsShama Karu Vaman, Sarah Jayne Prestwood Pearson, Clive Richard Thomas Norton
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Abstract
The invention relates to a chewing gum product comprising an extruded body portion, the body portion having a plurality of capillaries disposed therein, one or more capillaries being at least partially filled with a fill material and the body portion and/or the fill material comprising gum. The invention also relates to a process of manufacturing the same.
Claims31
A chewing gum product comprising a unitary extruded body portion, the body portion having a plurality of capillaries disposed therein, one or more capillaries being at least partially filled with a fill material and the body portion and/or the fill material comprising gum.
A process for manufacturing a chewing gum product comprising a unitary extruded body portion having a plurality of capillaries disposed therein, the process comprising the step of:
- a) extruding an extrudable chewing gum material with a plurality of capillaries disposed therein;
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- b) at least partially filling one or more capillaries with a fill material, wherein the body portion and/or the fill material comprises gum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.