Confectionery production
AssigneeMars, Incorporated
InventorsJasper Theodoor Peters, Theodor Anton Hermanus Johannes Prinsen
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Abstract
The invention provides a sugar composition for use in the manufacture of foodstuffs, said composition comprising a suspension of a fine sugar having a mean particle size of less than 30 microns in glucose syrup. This composition allows for energy efficient production of products including frappe, and methods as well as apparatus used in these methods form further aspects of the invention.
Claims16
A sugar composition for use in the manufacture of foodstuffs, said composition comprising a suspension of a fine sugar having a mean particle size of less than 30 microns in glucose syrup.
8-10. (canceled)
A method for producing frappe, said method comprising preparing a sugar composition comprising a suspension of a fine sugar having a mean particle size of less than 30 microns in glucose syrup, mixing the sugar composition with a formulation comprising a protein to provide a mixture and aerating the mixture.
17-24. (canceled)
An apparatus for preparing a sugar composition comprising a suspension of a fine sugar having a mean particle size of less than 30 microns in glucose syrup comprising a container, a mixer comprising a series of rotating blades arranged in the container such that material added to an end region of the container is transported along it while being mixed, a first pipe or tube, operably disposed relative to a storage device for fine sugar and the container, a second pipe or tube operably disposed relative to a storage device for glucose syrup and the container, a control system operably disposed to adjustable valves further operably disposed relative to the first and second pipe or tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.