Encapsulated flavorings

• US 6,902,751 B1
• Filed: 11/06/2000
• Issued: 06/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Symrise Gmbh & Co. Kg (Symrise AG)
• Original Assignee: Symrise Gmbh & Co. Kg (Symrise AG)
• Inventors: Schleifenbaum, Birgit, Renz, Karl-Heinz, Uhlemann, Jens
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, LIEN THUY
• Application Number:
  US09/707,270
• Time in Patent Office: 1,674 Days
• Field of Search: 426/96, 426/89, 426/651, 426/650
• US Class Current: 426/89
• CPC Class Codes: A23F 3/405 Flavouring with flavours other than natural tea flavour or tea oil
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/72 Encapsulation
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2200/22 Coating agent
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/101 Air
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/60 Sugars, e.g. mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-saccharides
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/1694 resulting in granules or microspheres of the matrix type containing more than 5% of excipient

Abstract

A method for producing carbohydrate-encapsulated flavorings whose surface has been treated with an inert gas, as well as carbo-hydrate-encapsulated flavorings and the use thereof in food products, consumer articles and pharmaceuticals.

Claims

1. A process for producing encapsulated flavoring, comprising the steps of emulsifying the flavoring into a carbohydrate melt, wherein said carbohydrate melt is prepared from a carbohydrate mixture melted by heating to 80 to 120°

C., to form a resultant melt and producing particles from the resultant melt, wherein the particles are treated with an inert gas at a gas velocity of 0.2 to 4 m/s.

2. A process according to claim 1, wherein said inert gas is air.

3. A process according to claim 1, wherein said particles are treated with an inert gas in the temperature range from 10 to 35°

C.

4. A process according to claim 1, wherein said particles are treated in a gas steam at a gas velocity of 0.5 to 2 m/s.