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US 8,138,162 B2Granted
Natural sweetener
AssigneeHorizon Science Pty. Ltd.
InventorsDavid Kannar, Barry James Kitchen
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Abstract
The invention relates to extracts, in particular non-nutrient phytochemicals, form sugar cane or sugar beet waste products, such as molasses, sugar mud and bagasse, which have Glycemic Index (GI) lowering properties and their use as sweeteners and in foods containing sugar.
Claims12
A low GI sweetener suitable for human consumption, the sweetener consisting essentially of:
- (a) a sugar base that is at least 97% by weight sucrose;
- combined with
- (b) an amount of a GI lowering extract from a sugar processing product that is effective to lower the GI of the sugar base,
- the sugar processing product being selected from the group consisting of molasses, sugar mud, juice collected from a clarifying tank, foam collected from a clarifying tank, sugar cane field trash, sugar beet field trash, fibrated sugar cane tops, bagasse, sugar beet pulp, a sugar waste processing stream, and combinations of these,
- the sweetener having a GI no greater than 54.
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