Hard caramel sweets and tablets
AssigneeSudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsIngrid Willibald-Ettle, Ondrej Mikla
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Abstract
A process and product is taught for producing vitreous molten mass from sweeteners by means of an extruder, in particular a double screw extruder. The sweetener is introduced into an inlet zone of the extruder, is extruded in a melting zone at an increased temperature, in a vacuum zone at a reduced pressure and increased temperature, and finally in a cooling zone at a reduced temperature, forming a vitreous molten mass.
Claims15
A glass-like plastic mass prepared from at least one sweetening agent mixture by means of an extruder, in which extruder a sweetening agent mixture is fed into a charging zone into a melting zone at elevated temperature of 130° C. to 210° C., into a vacuum zone at reduced pressure and elevated temperature of 120° C. to 160° C., and extruded into a cooling zone at reduced temperature of 60° C. to 130° C., and a glass-like plastic mass is obtained.
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