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US 2026/0101916 A1Published application
Sweetened fiber and methods thereof
AssigneeZeroIN Foods Inc.
InventorsEdgar HERNANDEZ SOSA, Veerendhar AINELLY, Michael BEH, Ebrahim SOLEIMANI
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to sweetened fibers, compositions thereof, and products comprising the sweetened fiber of the present disclosure, and uses thereof. The present disclosure also relates to methods of preparing the sweetened fibers of the present disclosure.
Claims80
A sweetened fiber comprising
- a sweetener attached to at least one molecule of fiber,
- wherein each of the at least one molecule of fiber is attached to the sweetener through an oxygen atom of the sweetener via a glycosidic bond, and
- wherein the at least one molecule of fiber comprises a trisubstituted saccharide monomer, and wherein the trisubstituted saccharide monomer is attached to another saccharide monomer at the C1 position of the trisubstituted saccharide monomer.
The sweetened fiber of any one of claims 6 to 10, wherein the triterpene is selected from mogroside V, mogroside IVa, mogroside IVe, aglycyrrhizin and mixtures thereof.
Method of preparing a sweetened fiber,
- wherein the sweetened fiber comprises a sweetener attached to at least one molecule of fiber, wherein each of the at least one molecule of fiber is attached to the sweetener through an oxygen atom of the sweetener via a glycosidic bond, and wherein the at least one molecule of fiber comprises trisubstituted saccharide monomers,
- wherein the method comprises
- combining the fiber and the sweetener to obtain a fiber mixture,
- combining the fiber mixture with an acid to obtain a fiber paste, and
- heating the fiber paste to obtain a heated fiber paste, the heated fiber paste comprising the sweetened fiber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.