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US 4,053,699 AGranted
Flash drying of xanthan gum and product produced thereby
AssigneeGeneral Mills Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsPatrick Thomas Cahalan, John Allen Peterson, Douglas Arthur Arndt
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Abstract
Flash dried granules of calcium-xanthomonas gum complex.
Claims3
In a method of making calcium-xanthomonas gum complex granules comprising the steps of precipitating xanthomonas gum with calcium ion at an alkaline pH to form a complex, adjusting the moisture content of the complex to from 70 to 80% by weight of the complex, the improvement consisting of flash drying the complex at an air temperature of 70.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. to a moisture content of no more than 12% by weight in a period of about no more than 30 seconds.
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