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Alitame stability in chewing gum by encapsulation

  • US 4,997,659 A
  • Filed: 12/29/1989
  • Issued: 03/05/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A chewing gum composition comprising:

  • (a) about 5 to about 95% of a gum base;

    (b) about 10 to about 90% of a bulking agent;

    (c) about 0.1 to about 10% of a flavoring agent; and

    (d) coated Alitame wherein at least one of the said gum base ingredients, bulking agents, or flavoring agents is also an Alitame degradation agent and wherein the Alitame is sufficiently coated to slow Alitame degradation due to the degradation agent so that at least 60% of an original amount of Alitame in the chewing gum remains after 8 weeks of storage at 85°

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