Production of isomaltulose
AssigneeTalres Development (N.A.) N.V.
InventorsChristopher Bucke, Peter S. J. Cheetham
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Abstract
Isomaltulose is produced by a process in which at least the isomaltulose-forming enzyme system of an isomaltulose-forming micro-organism genus Erwinia is immobilized on calcium alginate gel and then the immobilized enzyme system is contacted with a sucrose solution to convert at least part of the sucrose to isomaltulose.
Claims12
A process for the production of isomaltulose, which process consists essentially of immobilizing by entrapment within a calcium alginate gel at least the isomaltulose-forming enzyme system of an isomaltulose-forming micro-organism of the genus Erwinia and then contacting the immobilized enzyme system with a sucrose solution containing at least 30% (w/v) of sucrose to convert at least part of the sucrose to isomaltulose.
The process of claim 7, wherein said micro-organism is of the strain E. rhapontici NCPPB 1578.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.