JPH0114142Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] This invention relates to a tableted gum containing sugar-coated chewing gum in which small pieces of sugar-coated chewing gum are dispersed.

[Conventional technology]

Tablet confectionery is generally made by compressing ramune confectionery powder into tablets, and is mainly enjoyed by children. An attempt has been made to disperse and contain a large number of gum pieces in such a ramune tablet confectionery to impart chewing properties and at the same time to enhance the appearance with the dispersed gum pieces (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 30876/1987). However, in this product, the amount of dispersed gum pieces in the whole tablet confectionery is only about 30% (which cannot be increased further due to the structure), and most of the gum pieces are sugars, and the chewable rubber content ( Since it contains only about 30% of gum base), it only contains about 1/10 of the total gum base content of the whole tablet confectionery. In other words, the above products contain a small amount of gum base per one tablet, so
They do not have sufficient chewing properties, and satisfying chewing properties can only be obtained by eating several pieces at the same time.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

In order to impart chewing properties to such tablet confections, it has been proposed to use powdered chewing gum in place of the ramune confectionery material that constitutes the tablet confectionery body of the tablet confectionery described in the above-mentioned publication. (Jitko Publication No. 50-226). However, in this case, the material adheres to the mold during tabletting, etc., resulting in a problem that continuous productivity is impaired in actual operation. In other words, unlike the Ramune confectionery material, powdered chewing gum is sticky due to the rubber content (gum base) it contains, so multiple pieces of gum (highly sticky) are further dispersed therein. This is because the adhesion of the two compounds will cause them to stick to the mold during tableting, making it difficult for them to come off.

This invention was developed in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a tablet confectionery that is highly decorative, has sufficient chewability, and is easy to continuously produce.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the tabletted gum containing sugar-coated chewing gum of this invention is a tablet confectionery body consisting of granular chewing gum, which is a granulated product of powdered chewing gum, and small pieces of chewing gum with a sugar coating layer mainly composed of sugar. The tablet confectionery has a structure in which a plurality of coated chewing gum pieces are dispersed and contained, and some of them are exposed on the surface of the confectionery tablet body.

[Effect]

As a result of a series of studies to solve the above-mentioned adhesion problem, the inventors of the present invention granulated powdered chewing gum into granules, and pre-coated multiple pieces of gum with a sugar-coated layer (mainly composed of sugar). If the granular chewing gum is coated with a hard and non-adhesive material and dispersed in the above granular chewing gum, the granular chewing gum will come into contact with the mold surface in a rough state during tableting due to its granular shape. Some of the sugar-coated chewing gum pieces are exposed from the surface of the granular chewing gum and come into contact with one side of the molding machine, preventing the granular chewing gum from coming into contact with the entire mold surface. They found that it can be easily detached and came up with this idea. During this tableting, the granular chewing gum is granular and is filled into the mold with gaps between them, so the impact during tableting is absorbed by the gaps, and the sugar coating layer of the sugar-coated chewing gum is Since it is mainly composed of sugar and is hard and sticky, it is possible to avoid cracks or breaks in the sugar coating layer of sugar-coated chewing gum during tabletting.

Incidentally, imparting a ramune confectionery flavor to the tablet confectionery can be easily achieved by, for example, incorporating a ramune confectionery material into granular chewing gum.

Next, examples will be described.

〔Example〕

1 and 2 show an embodiment of this invention. In the figure, 1 is a tablet main body made of granular chewing gum, and 2 is sugar-coated chewing gum pieces dispersed therein.

As the above-mentioned granular chewing gum, those manufactured by a known method can be used. However, when granulating gum using a known method, the gum is first pulverized, then granulated using an extrusion granulator, and then heat-dried. A phenomenon occurs in which the morphs stick together and form a dumpling-like shape. Therefore, it is preferable to use a product produced by performing powdering and granulation simultaneously as follows without causing the above-mentioned problems.

First, prepare each raw material in the following proportions.

Gum base: 5-15% (by weight, same below) Powdered sugar: 85-95% Acidulant: small amount Binder: 1-3% (gum arabic, guar gum, powdered starch syrup) Next, using the above raw materials Make granular chewing gum as follows.

(1) Warm gum base and powder (powdered sugar + acidulant)
Place in a kneader heated to 80-90℃ and knead to completely disperse the gum base. If the temperature is low, the gum base will not be uniformly dispersed.

(2) After kneading and dispersing the gum base and turning the whole into powder, add powdered starch syrup and disperse well.

(3) Pour the binder little by little and gradually heat it to evaporate the moisture until the final moisture content is 0.6% or less. As a result, what was previously powder-like becomes granular.

(4) Cool and crush the obtained granules to make the particle size uniform. As a result, the desired granular chewing gum is obtained.

Further, as the sugar-coated chewing gum pieces 2, ordinary chewing gum made of sugars such as sugar, glucose, starch syrup, etc., a softener, and a flavoring agent is formed into chips and coated with sugar by a known method.

[Effect of idea]

The tableted gum containing sugar-coated chewing gum of this invention has a tablet body consisting of granular chewing gum,
Since it is composed of a plurality of dispersed chewing gum pieces obtained by coating chewing gum pieces with a sugar coating layer mainly composed of sugar, it has sufficient chewing properties. In addition, the chewing gum constituting the tablet body is made into granules, and the chewing gum pieces that are dispersed in the tablet body are not left as they are, but are coated with sugar and dispersed. It does not cause a situation where it adheres to the die surface of the punching machine and makes tabletting impossible. Furthermore, the combination of the granular chewing gum and the sugar-coated chewing gum pieces coated with a sugar-coated layer containing sugar as a main component prevents the sugar-coated chewing gum pieces from cracking due to impact during tablet compression. Avoided. Furthermore, since the chewing gum pieces are coated with a sugar coating layer, by darkly coloring only the sugar coating layer, the whole chewing gum piece can be darkly colored, and the dispersion pattern of the colored sugar coating chewing gum pieces can be clearly seen by using only a small amount of pigment. Become able to express yourself. In other words, if you try to form a clear dispersion pattern with non-sugar-coated gum, you will have to darkly color the whole chewing gum, which will require a large amount of pigment, and when you eat it, that large amount of pigment will be expelled. The inside of your mouth becomes discolored. Therefore, in fact, it is impossible to achieve deep coloring, and only a vague dispersed pattern can be produced. However, as in this invention, by applying sugar coating to small pieces of chewing gum, if only the sugar coating layer is colored with a small amount of pigment, the whole is darkly colored. This makes it possible to express a dispersion pattern.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view thereof. 1... Tablet confectionery body, 2... Small pieces of sugar-coated chewing gum.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A tablet confectionery body made of granular chewing gum, which is a granulated product of powdered chewing gum, contains a plurality of sugar-coated chewing gum pieces, which are coated with a sugar-coated layer containing sugar as the main component, dispersed therein, and some of these pieces become tablets. Compressed gum with sugar-coated chewing gum exposed on the surface of the confectionery body.