Process for recrystallizing sugar and product thereof
AssigneeCrompton & Knowles Corporation
InventorJames R. Morano
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Abstract
The invention is a process for recrystallizing sugar. The invention involves admixing a first quantity of a powdered sugar and a second quantity of an adjuvant, such as an invert sugar, to provide a sugar blend. The sugar blend has up to about 3 percent moisture. The invention then involves mixing the sugar blend with a high shear extruding means at a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and about 300.degree. F. with a residence time in the extruding means of between about 0.5 second and about 12 seconds. The invention includes the product of a combined phase recrystallized sugar.
Claims26
A recrystallized sugar product prepared by a process comprising:
- blending a powdered sugar with up to about 15 percent of an adjuvant to provide a sugar blend, said sugar blend has up to about 3 percent moisture;
- feeding said sugar blend under a positive pressure to an extruding means;
- and
- mixing with a high shear extruding means said sugar blend at a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and about 300.degree. F. with a residence time in said extruding means of between about 0.5 and about 12 seconds and with a discharge pressure between 20 and 1,200 psi;
- whereby said adjuvant is uniformly distributed throughout said sugar blend.
A recrystallized sugar product prepared by a process comprising:
- admixing a first quantity of a powdered sugar and a second quantity of an invert sugar to provide a sugar blend, said sugar blend has up to about three percent moisture;
- feeding said sugar blend under a positive pressure to an extruding means;
- and
- mixing with a high shear extruding means at about 100 to about 500 RPM said sugar blend to a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and about 300.degree. F. with a residence time in said extruding means of between about 0.5 and about 12 seconds to simultaneously dehydrate and recrystallize said sugar blend upon exiting said extruding means;
- whereby said adjuvant is uniformly distributed throughout said sugar blend.
A recrystallized sugar product with nonsucrose solids prepared by a process comprising:
- blending
- (a) a refined white sucrose fondant, said refined white sucrose fondant has a granule size distribution such that at least 99 percent passes through a 325 mesh screen, and
- (b) an adjuvant, said adjuvant includes a nonsucrose solid,
- said blend of said refined white sucrose fondant and adjuvant has up to about three percent moisture and up to 15 percent nonsucrose solids on a dry solids basis;
- feeding said sugar blend under a positive pressure to a cooker-extruder means;
- and
- extruding said sugar blend to a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and 300.degree. F. with residence time in said cooker-extruder means, having a length to diameter ratio of at least 6.5, of between about 0.5 and about 12 seconds and with a discharge pressure between 20 and 1,200 psi;
- whereby said adjuvant is uniformly distributed throughout said sugar blend.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.