Bleed resistant colored particles for confectionery products
AssigneeThe Hershey Company
InventorsKimberly A. STANGL, Judith K. COOLEY
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Abstract
A method of forming edible colored particles is provided that includes providing a plurality of edible non-hygroscopic particles, spraying the plurality of non-hygroscopic particles with an aqueous color system in a coating pan to obtain a plurality of coated particles, tumbling the plurality of coated particles concurrently during at least a portion of the spraying step and drying the plurality of coated particles in the coating pan. The resulting coated particles have a colored exterior and that exhibit resistance to color bleed in environments having a relative humidity up to the hygroscopic limit of the non-hygroscopic particles.
Claims15
A method of forming edible colored particles comprising:
- providing a plurality of edible non-hygroscopic particles;
- spraying the plurality of non-hygroscopic particles with an aqueous color system in a coating pan to obtain a plurality of coated particles;
- tumbling the plurality of coated particles concurrently during the spraying step;
- and
- drying the plurality of coated particles in the coating pan,
- wherein the plurality of coated particles have a colored exterior that exhibit resistance to color bleed in environments having a relative humidity up to the hygroscopic limit of the non-hydroscopic particle.
A method of forming edible colored particles comprising:
- providing a plurality of edible non-hygroscopic particles selected from the group consisting of isomalt particles, maltitol particles, mannitol particles, erythritol particles, and combinations thereof and having a particle size in the range of about 0.2 millimeters to about 10 millimeters;
- spraying, in a coating pan, the plurality of non-hygroscopic particles with an aqueous color system containing a water soluble dye, a lake pigment, or a combination thereof to obtain a plurality of coated particles;
- drying the plurality of coated particles in the coating pan by blowing air over the particles;
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- tumbling the plurality of coated particles concurrently during at least a portion of each of the spraying and drying steps,
- wherein the plurality of coated particles have a colored exterior that exhibit resistance to color bleed in environments having a relative humidity up to the hygroscopic limit of the non-hygroscopic particles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.