Chewing gum in the form of multi-layer tablets
AssigneeJagotec AG
InventorAlberto Salini
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Abstract
Disclosed are tablets having a sandwich-like structure comprising at least one inner layer of gum base containing one or more active pharmaceutical, dietetic or nutritional ingredients and two non-contigous outer layers comprising antiadhesion excipients and compression adjuvants preventing the adhesion to the punches of the tabletting machine and possibly active ingredients which are the same as or different from those present in the inner layer. Said tablets are obtainable by direct compression of mixtures or granulates of the various components of each layer.
Claims11
Chewing gum tablets containing one or more active pharmaceutical, dietetic or nutritional ingredients, said tablets comprising at least one inner core layer of gum base and a plurality of outer layers not in contact one with the other and respectively coating only the upper and bottom part of the gum core, leaving the peripheral side of the core uncoated, said outer layers consisting of compressed mixtures of powders,
- wherein said at least one inner layer of gum base comprises a gum component that is between 20 and 98% of the base;
- and said outer layers comprise antiadhesion excipients and compression adjuvants selected from isomalt, maltol, maltodextrin, maltitol, mannitol, xylitol, lactitol, lactose, skim milk, eritritol, oligofructose, retrograded starch, polysorbates, polyethyleneoxide, dextrans, cyclodextrins, oligosaccharose, fructose, and hydrogenated starch hydrosilates.
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