CN1044079C - Fast dissolving agent including - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a product containing sweetening agents and caramel. The product contains a limited amount of caramel, and has rapid dissolubility.

Description

Production has the method for the powdery or the granular sweetener of improved rate of dissolution

The invention belongs to the bromatology field.The present invention relates to a kind of manufacture method of product, this product comprises a kind of artificial sweetener such as APM (aspartame, APME).Say that more specifically the present invention relates to comprise the manufacture method of the quick dissolving sweetener of caramel, this product also has improved dust and flowing property.

Usually it is difficult using sweetener in desired product.Application purpose for this reason, sweetener should include but not limited to: APM (aspartame), asccharin, cyclohexyl-n-sulfonate, acesulfame potassium-K, TGS (sucralose, tri-chloro galactose type sugar), dipeptide base acid amides.The difficulty of outward appearance, chemistry and physical property, unstability, ability, carrying and manufacturing can reduce the particularly purposes of Powdered sweetener of sweetener.In the occasion that requires low dust, flows freely, dissolves or discharge fast fast, sweetener might be difficult to use.

Sometimes APM is difficult to use, because block APM dissolving is very slow, the easy dusting powder belt static behaviour of being made up of acicular grains flows with being difficult for.In the drink industry, owing to easy dusting of APM and the slow problem that waste is arranged of dissolving.The loss of APM may occur in to scatter and disappear in manufacturing, transportation, loading and unloading, the use and absorb in air and by equipment and vessel surface.

Dusting, flowability and the problems of dissolution of several different methods to overcome the APM powder once proposed.These methods comprise with filler makes grain as sugar, dextrin, maltodextrin etc. with APM.In the product of success, generally be that the filler by high percent mixes with low percentile APM, because need the characteristic of a large amount of fillers to make rapidly-soluble product.Process for granulating comprises fluidized bed prilling, spray-drying, dry, high shear can granulation, roll extrusion and method such as extruded altogether.For example, the USP 4497835 of Adolph proposes, and uses to comprise the corn solid thing of hydrolysis, a kind of food acids, a kind of flavouring agent, a kind of turbidity agent, APM and a kind of colorant.Whole composition premixeds that will be except that colorant add colorant solution then in each composition blending process.This mixture is the improved dissolution properties of tool in the powder-type beverage mix.Yet per 1 part of APM will have 10 parts of other compositions at least in this mixture.

In the USP 3962468 of Pischke etc., a kind of specific process has been proposed.The method of the dispersion liquid of producing APM and dextrin has been described in detail in detail in the document.Be preferably some APM particles and still be in not dissolved particles state, and be encapsulated among the dextrin.

In the GBP of Sharma 2104369 B, soundd out a kind of method that is suitable for beverage industries.The document has disclosed a kind of APM concentrate, and it is the mixture that contains 1-35%APM and 65-99% caramel colorant.This concentrate generally be used to make be used for the carbonated drink beverage increase sweet syrup by APM.This concentrate can liquidly use, or obtains powder-product after the dehydration.Use APM by the mode of document disclosure and exist difficulty.Owing to the content of caramel and APM in this mixture makes it the tool hygroscopicity and become to bear moist mixture, they are exposed to and become stickum in the humid air very soon, so be difficult to loading and unloading and transportation.After making the mixture of caramel and APM by the disclosed amount of the document, carrying problem that is occurred and the typical problem of using the APM powder to be produced are similar, and its product does not have free mobility.Moreover the color and luster that used caramel produces in the document is too dark, and products obtained therefrom can only be used in the purposes that requires dark color.Also can make it to be difficult to process with many like this caramel with aforementioned various prilling process.

Therefore, need a kind of manufacturing tool quick deliquescent sweetener, particularly APM badly, method.

Purpose of the present invention just provides a kind of manufacturing tool quick deliquescent sweetener, particularly APM, method.

The present invention relates to a kind of rapidly-soluble sweetener product.Preferably a kind of rapidly-soluble granular sweetener, and have improved dust and flow behavior.This sweetener mixes with the caramel of low content, forms rapidly-soluble powder.Also can this sweetener be drenched with liquor sacchari usti, dry then back forms powder or granular product.The preferred caramel powder and water or use liquor sacchari usti of using made granular product as granulating agent, after the drying, has few fecula dirt, flows freely and quick dissolution properties.This mixture preferably contains the about 70-99.5% of sweetener dry weight, contains the about 0.5-30% of caramel dry weight.

Product of the present invention comprises the mixture of a kind of sweetener and a kind of caramel that dewaters, and wherein the sweetener amount is at least two times of caramel content.Be purpose of the present invention, described dehydration caramel is meant that the caramel in final products contains the moisture of finite quantity.Caramel can be Powdered or syrup form before mixing.Preferably, the caramel amount is counted about 0.5-30% by dry weight, and artificial sweetener (preferably using APM) amount is counted 70-99.5% by dry weight.For the purposes of this invention, the content of described caramel and sweetener is by " butt weight ".That is can have moisture in the mixture, but moisture is disregarded interior when calculating caramel and sweetener percentage and ratio.In product, water can be used as residual moisture and exists, and its amount can be no more than 8% and the performance and the stability of unlikely appreciable impact product.It is beyond thought quick that the dissolving of this product reaches.When sweetener after caramel is made grain, product also has improved dust and flow behavior.

Caramel and sweetener can be admixed together by several different methods, and each method all can be made into sweetener/caramel mixture that tool improves rate of dissolution.Used " caramel " of the present invention comprises the sugar of the caramelization that any routine obtains.The sugar of making caramelization is that solution such as the corn syrup with sugar is heated to high temperature, for example 125 ℃.Caramel can be syrup form or dry type, as powder.Caramel is generally used for the numerous food product, also comprises beverage and candy.Caramel is applicable to and requires color and low-calorie product.The caramel that is suitable for includes but not limited to: the product that Sethness ProductsCompany makes.The caramel of particularly suitable is ammonium bisulfite to be arranged during fabrication as the made beverage type caramel of reactant.The pH of the caramel of particularly suitable is about 2.5-5.0, and isoelectric point is lower than 2.5.Preferred caramel for example comprises Double Strength 400SM and the AP100SM of Sethness Products Company.Unexpected discovery, a spot of caramel just can make the rate of dissolution of a large amount of sweeteners significantly improve.This is obvious especially when using APM, with it in pairs photograph be that to attempt to improve its rate of dissolution in the past be only to reach limited effect by using filler, or to produce effect with very a large amount of filler sides.Comprise those materials that are commonly used to mix with APM or other sweeteners at " filler " described in the method.These materials include but not limited to: polymerization glucose, maltodextrin, Arabic gum, glucose, corn syrup solids.

Have found that available various distinct methods coat sweetener with caramel and sweetener granulation or with it, form rapidly-soluble product.One of method with the caramel dilute with water of syrup form, joins then and forms slurries in the sweetener, and is dry then, grind.Two of method is mixed sweetener with the caramel dry powder, add water then and drench, and makes " dough ", and is dry then and grind.Other method; with sweetener with the liquor sacchari usti granulation; the mixture of perhaps dried caramel powder and sweetener is used the granulation in water of Hobart mixer, perhaps with other conventional Granulation Equipments such as mechanical mixture formula comminutor, fluidized bed pelletizer or rotation processing machine.Other method can join artificial sweetener a coating machine again, adds liquor sacchari usti then sweetener is coated and granulation.A method again joins the caramel of dry state among the APM of dry state.Unexpected find that such simple mixtures has improved rate of dissolution, very cause do not drench under the situation also like this.Since wherein the caramel consumption seldom, this effect is found especially unexpectedly.

Made particle or the very fast rate of dissolution of powder-product tool.Therefore, APM and other artificial sweeteners can be applied in and require rate of dissolution fast and be in the poor multiple use of caramel owing to color, taste or other aspect reasons require dissolution aids again.In addition, caramel also has excellent wetability and dispersiveness, makes the rate of dissolution of granular substance faster than going back of expection.

In a kind of product that contains caramel, can mix more than a kind of sweetener.A kind of particularly preferred sweet agent mixture is the composition of APM, acesulfame potassium-K and caramel.

In this product, also can contain a small amount of conventional formula filler.In some purposes, can require to improve some physical property, for example make harder particle with some fillers.The consumption of filler is counted the highest by about 15% by product butt weight.Best, the total amount that caramel adds filler is lower than 30% by product butt weight.The dosage of filler just reaches particle is increased till the hardness.The product that this kind comprises caramel and sweetener can be applicable to multiple product, includes but not limited to: food product, beverage, fruit juice, inebriant, soft drink and other carbonated drinks, candy (loaf sugar, chewing gum, cake, bread etc.), dental health product, drug products, veterinary products.Following embodiment illustrates the variety of way of manufacturing caramel-APM product, and compares with other powder and syrupy shape filler mixture with APM.These embodiment for the usefulness of illustrating, are not the qualification to the scope of the invention only.

Embodiment 1

With commercially available caramel syrup dilute with water, preparation caramel-APM mixture.The solution of dilution is joined among the powders A PM, become aqueous slurry.Slurry filtered and in vacuum drying oven in 50 ℃ of dryings.Dried filter cake is ground, sieve, obtain varigrained particle or powder sample.Purposes for this reason, the particle mean size of grain products should be about 20-60 order standard screen made in U.S.A; Powder-product should be 60 orders standard screen screenings made in U.S.A.Express the rate of dissolution of different caramel-APM mixture down.All percentage of product are the dry weight percent.The complete finished product content of beginning average particle caramel caramel amount APM measures, and % type (gram) (gram) system standard screen (second) APM caramel SethnessDoubleStrength is estimated in U.S. dissolving ^TM40 100-60

40-60 18 87.6?11.2SethnessDoubleStrength ^TM 10 100 -60 24

40-60 52 95.1 4.4SethnessAP100 ^TM 25 100 -60 12

40-60 36 89.6 7.6SethnessB&C145 ^TM 25 100 -60 12

40-60 35 92.6 6.7SethnessRT80 ^TM 25 100 -60 12

40-60 22 88.5 8.4SethnessRT80 ^TM 12.5 100 -60 15

40-60 40 94 5.6SethnessYT25 ^TM 25 100 -60 13

40-60 40 92 6.4SethnessRT120 ^TM 25 100 -60 14

40-60 18 92.4 5.7SethnessRT240 ^TM 25 100 -60 12

40-60 25 93.4 5.3

Caramel content is than the caramel amount much less of beginning in the product, because in filtration step, part caramel loses with filtrate.

Embodiment 2

Commercial powder caramel is mixed with powders A PM, obtain caramel-APM mixture.Add water to this mixture, mix then.

Then that mixture is dry also by 60 orders standard screen made in U.S.A.

Filler caramel amount APM measures particle mean size, fully dissolving

(gram) (gram) standard screen made in U.S.A (second) SethnessRT175 10 100-60 14S,eth,nes,sAP,680 10 100-60 14

Embodiment 3

Powdered APM is mixed with Powdered or other solubility fillers of syrupy shape.Add entry to drench this mixture of powders, mix then.With the mixture drying, sieve then, obtain the sample that granularity is 60 mesh sieve screenings made in U.S.A.Syrupy shape caramel elder generation dilute with water joins APM then so that particle is drenched.

Filler caramel amount APM measures particle mean size, fully dissolving

(gram) (gram) standard screen made in U.S.A (second) Maltrin M150TM 10 100-60 80Lycasin (syrup) 12 100-60 96 corn syrup solids 5 100-60 170 Arabic gums 5 100-60 75Tween 80 ^TM(slurry) 5 100-60 75Tween 80 ^TM(slurry) 10 100-60 50 fructose 10 100-60 120 sucrose 10 100-60 120 glucose 10 100-60 165 saccharin sodium 10 100-60 140 Sodium Cyclamates 10 100-60 250 acesulfame potassiums-K 10 100-60 165 sorbierite 10 100-60 200 high-fructose corn syrups

(syrup) 5 100-60 180 Arabic gum 30 100 30-80 156 Arabic gums 30 100-80 45

Embodiment 4

A kind of Powdered filler is dissolved in water.This solution joined that the APM powder makes it to drench and with the APM granulation.With the mixture drying, sieve then, get varigrained sample.

Filler caramel amount APM measures particle mean size, fully dissolving

(gram) (gram) standard screen made in U.S.A (second)

Sorbierite 10 100-60 156

Sorbierite 10 100 40-60 288 polymerization glucose 10 100-60 150 polymerization glucose 10 100 40-60 276

Embodiment 5

Powdered APM is placed in the glass with 22.5 grams, mixes lightly with teaspoon and 2.5 gram powdery caramels (AP 680, Sethness Products Company distribution).Sample dissolution (being dissolved in the deionized water of 120 milliliters of room temperatures with 0.1 gram) and stirring gently with this mixture.This sample surpasses 95% dissolving in 10 seconds, dissolving fully in 45 seconds.

Therefore can see, mix with APM separately than conventional filler or sweetener by caramel and APM blended product that afterwards rate of dissolution is faster.Use caramel and APM gained result and be better than other fillers.Because these results make that APM or other sweeteners can be applied to require in the purposes of quick dissolving of sweetener and minimum filler.

What stated is principle of the present invention and the preferred plan of using this principle.Self-evident, aforementioned each embodiment is the usefulness for illustrating only, and can take other means and technology not deviating under the scope of the invention situation of following claim defined.

Claims (6)

1. a production has the method for the Powdered sweetener product of improved rate of dissolution, it is characterized in that, comprising the sweetener APME is mixed with a kind of dried caramel, and wherein, dry weight by described product, described sweetener accounts for 70% at least, and described caramel accounts for 0.5-30%.

2. a method of producing powder or granular sweetener product is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:

(a) caramel with dehydration mixes with APME, makes a kind of mixture, and by this mixture dry weight, wherein APME accounts for this mixture at least 70%, and described caramel accounts for 0.5-30%;

(b) under continuous stirring condition, the water that adds capacity makes described caramel dissolving;

(c) the mixture drying that this quilt is drenched.

3. by the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that wherein said process dried mixture obtains graininess or powdery granule again through grinding and sieving.

4. press the method for claim 2, it is characterized in that, wherein also comprise such step, a kind of Powdered filler that is about to be selected from Arabic gum, lycasin, maltodextrin and corn syrup solids joins in the described powdery caramel, dry weight by described product, the maximum of described filler accounts for this product 15%, condition be the total amount of described filler and described caramel be less than described product dry weight 30%.

5. a method of producing powder or granular sweetener product is characterized in that, comprises following step:

(a) dilute with water caramel syrup;

(b) described diluted caramel syrup is joined the wet slurry of formation in the Powdered sweetener APME, wherein, by the dry weight of described product, described sweetener accounts for this product at least 70%, and described caramel accounts for 0.5-30%;

(c) described wet mixture is dry and sieve, obtain particle or powdery product.

6. press the method for claim 5, it is characterized in that, wherein also comprise such step, a kind of filler that is about to be selected from Arabic gum, lycasin, maltodextrin and corn syrup solids joins in the described diluted caramel syrup, dry weight by described product, the maximum that described filler adds accounts for this product 15%, and condition is that the total amount of described filler and described caramel is less than 30% of described product dry weight.