Oral delivery products including three-dimensional objects
AssigneeThe Additive Advantage, LLC
InventorsPetros Gebreselassie, Atsushi Ueminami, Anilkumar Ganapati Gaonkar
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Abstract
An edible product and method for making an edible product including a core composition having at least one outer surface and at least one edible, three dimensional object secured to the at least one outer surface, where the object includes a binder material and a deliverable component selected from the group consisting of flavors, colors, sweeteners, actives, sensates, effervescent components, and combinations thereof. Also, a method for delivery of at least one deliverable component including placing such products in the mouth of a user and releasing the deliverable component from the edible, three dimensional object.
Claims27
A chewing gum product comprising:
- a. a chewing gum composition having at least one outer surface;
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- b. at least one edible, three dimensional object secured to said at least one outer surface, comprising;
- i. a meltable, polymeric binder material comprising a mixture of hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers;
- and
- ii. a deliverable component, wherein the deliverable component is encapsulated;
- wherein the three dimensional object is a pattern or image on said at least one outer surface;
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- wherein the object is readily disintegrable upon contact with saliva, thereby releasing the deliverable component comprised therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.