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US 5,667,823 AGranted
Sugarless chewing gum containing APM
AssigneeNabisco, Inc.
InventorsThomas Joseph Carroll, Gary Steven Kehoe
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Abstract
L-aspartic acid sweetening agent derivatives are stabilized in sugarless chewing gum containing about 2 to 8% moisture by being formulated with cooked aqueous hydrogenated starch hydrolysate having a moisture content of 10.+-.6%. Optionally, glycerine may also be used.
Claims7
A sugarless chewing gum product having a moisture content of at least 2 weight %, and comprising
- (a) 15 to 35 weight % of a gum base;
- b 20 to 70 weight % of a bulking agent or sweetener other than a L-aspartic acid derivative;
- c 10 to 30 weight % of a cooked aqueous syrup of hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, said cooked aqueous syrup having a moisture content of 4 to 16%;
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- (d) 0.01 to 2 weight % of a L-aspartic acid derivative.
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