Co-crystalline sucrose
AssigneeNestes S,A,
InventorsHeiko Oertling, Thibault Alzieu, Claire Vinay, Celine Borlet
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Abstract
The invention relates to nutritional or pharmaceutical compositions comprising sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals and to the use of sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals for calcium fortification of nutritional compositions. The invention further relates to a process for preparing sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals.
Claims12
Nutritional or pharmaceutical composition comprising sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals.
A method for calcium fortification of nutritional compositions comprising the step of adding use of sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals to a nutritional composition.
Process for preparing sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals comprising the steps of:
- preparing a solution comprising a calcium salt and sucrose at a temperature of 70-90° C.;
- cooling the solution to 20-35° C.;
- adding seeding crystals of sucrose.calcium salt co-crystals;
- allowing the formation of crystals;
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- isolating the obtained crystals.
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