Chewable soft capsules having improved administration properties and process for producing the same
AssigneeShionogi & Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidekazu Shodai, Noboru Nagafuji, Toshitada Toyoda, Yuka Okada
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Abstract
A soft capsule in which a shell is filled with fill material, and the fill material is in a solid or semi-solid form at room temperature. The soft capsule may be a chewable capsule, and the fill material may comprise a low melting point additive. The content of the low melting point additive may be 10% or more with respect to the total weight of the fill material, and may have a melting point of about 20 to 50° C. The low melting point additive may be selected from the group consisting of chocolate base, lard, coconut oil and macrogol (polyethylene glycol) as well as a combination thereof.
Claims29
A method for producing a soft capsule comprising:
- melting a low melting point additive comprising a chocolate base comprising cacao butter to produce a fill material, wherein the fill material has a hardness of no greater than 47 kgs;
- producing a shell;
- filling the shell with the fill material;
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- drying the filled material in a drying chamber at a temperature of 30° C. to 40° C. for 5 hours to 64 hours so that a major amount of V-type cacao butter crystals and a minor amount of VI-type cacao butter crystals are formed such that the shell and fill material are homogenized with each other to produce the soft capsule.
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