Sweetener compositions
AssigneeKruger Inc.
InventorWillibert Krüger
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Abstract
The invention relates to a sweetener composition, in particular having a reduced physiological calorific value (energy content), preferably for sweetening food, wherein the sweetener composition contains a combination of at least one sweetener and at least one water-soluble, bulk substance, and to the use of said sweetener composition.
Claims6
A sweetener composition for sweetening foodstuffs, the sweetener composition having a reduced physiological calorific value and thus a reduced energy content, wherein the sweetener composition is in the form of grain-shaped granules and wherein the sweetener composition comprises, in combination, the following ingredients:
- (a) at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible dietary fiber selected from dextrins in an amount of 90-97% by weight, based on the sweetener composition, wherein (a) the dietary fiber comprises water-dispersible fibers in amounts of 40-60% by weight, based on (a) the dietary fiber, and wherein the dextrins of (a) the dietary fiber are poly- and oligosaccharide mixtures comprising at least one of 1,2-glycosidic bonds, 1,3-glycosidic bonds, 1,4-glycosidic bonds and 1,6-glycosidic bonds;
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- (b) at least one sweetener selected from the group of aspartame, acesulfame, saccharin, cyclamate, stevioside and sucralose and mixtures of the aforementioned sweeteners in an amount of 3 to 10% by weight, based on the sweetener composition;
- wherein the weight ratio of (a) dietary fiber to (b) sweetener is between 30:1 and 5:1;
- wherein the weight-related sweetening power of the sweetener composition corresponds to 1 to 70 times the sweetening power of sucrose;
- wherein the physiological calorific value of the sweetener composition is in the range from 0.5 to 10 kcal/g;
- wherein the sweetener composition has a total residual moisture of 2 to 4% by weight, based on the sweetener composition;
- wherein the sweetener composition has a bulk density of 60 to 200 g/l, and
- wherein the granules have a particle size of 0.1 to 0.5 mm.
A method for sweetening foodstuffs, wherein the method comprises the step of adding the sweetener composition for sweetening foodstuffs, the sweetener composition having a reduced physiological calorific value and thus a reduced energy content, wherein the sweetener composition is in the form of grain-shaped granules and wherein the sweetener composition comprises, in combination, the following ingredients:
- (a) at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible dietary fiber selected from dextrins in an amount of 90-97% by weight, based on the sweetener composition, wherein (a) the dietary fiber comprises water-dispersible fibers in amounts of 40-60% by weight, based on (a) the dietary fiber, and wherein the dextrins of (a) the dietary fiber are poly- and oligosaccharide mixtures comprising at least one of 1,2-glycosidic bonds, 1,3-glycosidic bonds, 1,4-glycosidic bonds and 1,6-glycosidic bonds;
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- (b) at least one sweetener selected from the group of aspartame, acesulfame, saccharin, cyclamate, stevioside and sucralose and mixtures of the aforementioned sweeteners in an amount of 3 to 10% by weight, based on the sweetener composition;
- wherein the weight ratio of (a) dietary fiber to (b) sweetener is between 30:1 and 5:1;
- wherein the weight-related sweetening power of the sweetener composition corresponds to 1 to 70 times the sweetening power of sucrose;
- wherein the physiological calorific value of the sweetener composition is in the range from 0.5 to 10 kcal/g;
- wherein the sweetener composition has a total residual moisture of 2 to 4% by weight, based on the sweetener composition;
- wherein the sweetener composition has a bulk density of 60 to 200 g/l;
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- wherein the granules have a particle size of 0.1 to 0.5 mm.
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