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US 4,726,953 AGranted
Sweet flavorful soft flexible sugarless chewing gum
AssigneeNabisco Brands, Inc.
InventorsThomas J. Carroll, Walter R. Hopkins
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Abstract
Soft, flexible sugarless chewing gum having a moisture content of about 2 to 7% and improved sweetness and flavor characteristics over extended periods of mastication time are provided by formulating gum base with unencapsulated saccharin, encapsulated saccharin, cooked aqueous hydrogenated starch hydrolysate having a moisture content of about 10.+-.6%, and, optionally, glycerine.
Claims8
A saccharin containing sugarless chewing gum composition that is soft and has a continuous prolonged release of flavor and sweetness during the mastication thereof and which comprises, in weight %,
- about 15 to 35% synthetic elastomer based gum base,
- about 0.02 to 0.15% unencapsulated saccharin,
- about 0.02 to 0.20% encapsulated saccharin,
- about 10 to 30% cooked aqueous hydrogenated starch hydrolysate having a moisture content of about 10.+-.6%,
- 0 to about 12% glycerin and
- about 2 to 7% total moisture,
- said unencapsulated saccharin providing an initial burst of sweetness, and
- said encapsulated saccharin being encapsulated to such extent that the encapsulated saccharin is gradually released from its encapsulating agent after said initial burst of sweetness and for an extended period of up to a total of about 15 minutes so as to provide during said extended period a level of sweetness higher than would be provided in a comparable product formulated with the same total amount of saccharin, all in unencapsulated form.
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