Food ingredients from stevia rebaudiana

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10368570-B2
Application number	US-201313943776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2013
Priority date	Jun 23, 2011
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

First claim

I claim:

1. A tabletop sweetener composition, consisting essentially of:
stevia-derived microcrystalline cellulose ingredient as a sole bulking agent; and
a steviol glycoside sweetener;
wherein the tabletop sweetener is in dry powder form, contains no non-stevia based ingredients, and wherein the stevia-derived microcrystalline cellulose ingredient is made by a process comprising the steps of:
(a) removing water-insoluble components from a stevia biomass;
(b) incubating the water-insoluble components in an alkaline solution to produce a pulp;
(c) washing the pulp to obtain a washed pulp;
(d) bleaching the washed pulp to obtain a bleached pulp; and
(e) separating cellulose from the bleached pulp.

2. The sweetener composition of claim 1 , wherein the process further comprises the steps of:
(f) depolymerizing the cellulose to obtain a depolymerized cellulose;
(g) washing the depolymerized cellulose to yield cellulose crystals; and
(h) suspending the cellulose crystals in water and spray-drying to yield the stevia-derived microcrystalline cellulose ingredient.

3. The tabletop sweetener composition of claim 1 , wherein the sweetener composition is prepared by the following steps:
providing a solution of the steviol glycoside sweetener;
suspending the stevia-derived microcrystalline cellulose ingredient in the sweetener solution to obtain a mixture;
spray-drying the mixture to obtain the whole stevia plant tabletop sweetener composition.

Assignees

• Purecircle Sdn Bhd

Inventors

• Markosyan Avetik

Classifications

• A61K8/9794

  Liliopsida [monocotyledons] · CPC title

• A61K8/9789

  Magnoliopsida [dicotyledons] · CPC title

• A23V2250/262

  Stevioside · CPC title

• A23V2200/15

  Flavour affecting agent · CPC title

• A23V2200/132

  Sugar replacer · CPC title