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US 4,681,771 AGranted
Sweetener
AssigneeMeiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Adachi, Hidemasa Hidaka
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Abstract
A low-calorific and low-cariogenic sweetener, and processes for the preparation and use thereof, are described, said sweetener comprising oligosaccharides having from 1 to 4 molecules of fructose bound to sucrose.
Claims2
A sweetened low-calorific and low-cariogenic food product comprising:
- (a) a low-calorific and low-cariogenic oligosaccharide sweetener;
- in physical admixture or in solution with
- (b) an unsweetened food consumable by humans, wherein said food product is sweetened due to the presence of said oligosaccharide, and wherein said oligosaccharide comprises a sucrose molecule having covalently bound thereto, 1 to 4 fructose molecules, and is represented by general formula (I):
- ##STR2## wherein n=2-5;
- or said oligosaccharide comprises mixtures of at least 2 of said oligosaccharides represented by formula (I).
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