Spray-dried L-aspartic acid derivatives
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsLaMonte D. Pischke, Myron D. Shoaf
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Abstract
A slurry-forming substantial level of discretely-sized undissolved L-aspartic acid sweetening compound, preferably one milled to reduce the particle size of undissolved ester crystals, is encapsulated in a water soluble encapsulating agent by drying a uniform dispersion as by spray drying to yield a high density readily soluble powderous sweetening composition which is readily blendable and uniform in sweetening power and resists caking and clumping.
Claims18
A process for fixation of sweet L-aspartic acid derivative dipeptide compounds which comprises forming a dispersion containing a slurry of undissolved particles of said sweetening compound in an aqueous solution of encapsulating agent, the level of said undissolved sweetening compound solids being in excess of the total sweetening solids of said compounds in solution in said dispersion and the dispersion being maintained at a temperature low enough to assure the existence of at least a part of the sweetening compound as discretely distributed undissolved particles, and drying said dispersion to a moisture content below 5% and a density greater than 0.2 grams per cc. to encapsulate the particles of said sweetening compound in said encapsulating agent.
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