Chewing gum base containing substituted polysaccharides and chewing gum products made there from
AssigneeWm. Wrigley Jr. Company
InventorsXiaoqun Mo, Jingping Liu, Kaichang Li
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Abstract
A chewing gum base comprises food acceptable substituted polysaccharides wherein substituents on the saccharide units in the polysaccharides produce a degree of substitution of at least I.0. The polysaccharides may have branches with an average length of 1 to 15 saccharide units per branch. The polysaccharides may be linked saccharide units such as allose, altrose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, 3,6 anhydro galactose, glucuronic acid, mannuronic acid, galacturonic acid, aldobiouronic acid, fucose, rhamnose, arabinose, xylose, talose, acyl substituted glucose, fructose, lactose and combinations thereof.
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A chewing gum comprising a sweetener, a flavoring agent and a chewing gum base comprising water-insoluble, food acceptable substituted, branched polysaccharides wherein:
- a) substituents on the saccharide units in the polysaccharides produce a degree of substitution of at least 1.0;
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- b) the polysaccharides have branches with an average length of 1 to 15 saccharide units per branch;
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- c) wherein the substituents are selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, carbonate ester, ester, peroxy, ether, hemiacetal, hemiketal, acetal, ketal, orthoester, orthocarbonate ester, carboxamide, tertiary amine, imide, azo, sulfide, disulfide, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonothioyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof.
A chewing gum comprising a sweetener, a flavoring agent and a chewing gum base comprising water-insoluble, food acceptable substituted polysaccharides wherein the polysaccharides consist essentially of linked saccharide units selected from the group consisting of allose, altrose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, 3,6anhydro galactose, sulfated 3,6 anhydro galactose, glucuronic acid, 4-o-methyl-glucuronic acid, esters of galacturonic acid, mannuronic acid, galacturonic acid and esters, aldobiouronic acid, fucose, rhamnose, sulfated galactose, arabinose, xylose, talose, acyl substituted glucose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxyl-glucose, fructose, lactose and their derivatives and combinations thereof, and wherein substituents on the saccharide units in the polysaccharides produce a degree of substitution of at least 1.0 and wherein the substituents are selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, carbonate ester, ester, peroxy, ether, hemiacetal, hemiketal, acetal, ketal, orthoester, orthocarbonate ester, carboxamide, tertiary amine, imide, azo, sulfide, disulfide, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonothioyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof.
A chewing gum comprising a sweetener, a flavoring agent and a chewing gum base comprising water-insoluble, food acceptable substituted polysaccharides wherein:
- a) the polysaccharides are selected from the group consisting of alginate, carrageenan, furcellaran, cellulose, guar gum, agar, gum arabic, gum ghatti, gum karaya, gum tragacanth, locust bean gum, pectin, tamarind gum, xanthan gum, arabinoxylan, xyloglucan, tara gum, cereal β-glucan,konjac mannan, curdlan, gellan gum, pullulan, scleroglucan, alternan, elsinan, levan, dextran, chitin, chitosan and combinations thereof;
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- b) substituents on the saccharide units in the polysaccharides produce a degree of substitution of at least 1.0;
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- c) wherein the substituents are selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, carbonate ester, ester, peroxy, ether, hemiacetal, hemiketal, acetal, ketal, orthoester, orthocarbonate ester, carboxamide, tertiary amine, imide, azo, sulfide, disulfide, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonothioyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof.
A chewing gum comprising a sweetener, a flavoring agent and a chewing gum base comprising water-insoluble, food acceptable substituted polysaccharides wherein the polysaccharides consist of saccharide units linked together through glycosidic linkages and wherein the glycosidic linkages in the polysaccharides comprise predominantly glycosidic linkages selected from the group consisting of β-1,4 linkages, β-1,3 linkages, β-1,2 linkages, α-1,2 linkages, β-1,5 linkages, α-1,6 linkages, α-1,3 linkages, α-1,5 linkages, β-1,6 linkages and combinations thereof, and substituents on the saccharide units in the polysaccharides produce a degree of substitution of at least 1.0 and wherein the substituents are selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, carbonate ester, ester, peroxy, ether, hem iacetal, hemiketal, acetal, ketal, orthoester, orthocarbonate ester, carboxamide, tertiary amine, imide, azo, sulfide, disulfide, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonothioyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof.
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