Bulk sugar replacer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11730175-B2
Application number	US-202217743834-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2022
Priority date	Nov 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 22, 2023
Grant date	Aug 22, 2023

Abstract

The present invention relates to amorphous porous particles comprising sugar, a bulking agent and surfactant, having a closed porosity of between 20 to 60% a sphericity of at least between 0.8 and 1. In a further aspect the present invention relates to a process of making said amorphous porous particles and their use as bulk sugar replacers in food products such as fat based confectionery products for example, chocolate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A food product comprising amorphous porous particles comprising sugar, a bulking agent and a surfactant, wherein the amorphous porous particles have a closed porosity between 20% to 60% and a sphericity between 0.8 and 1.

2. The food product according to claim 1 wherein the food product is selected from the group consisting of a confectionery product, a culinary product, a dairy product, a nutritional formula, a breakfast cereal and an ice-cream.

3. The food product according to claim 1 wherein the food product is a fat based confectionery product.

4. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the food product is a chocolate.

5. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous porous particles have a glass transition temperature of at least 40° C.

6. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous porous particles have a D90 particle size between 30 and 140 microns.

7. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the sugar of the amorphous porous particles is selected from the group consisting of sucrose, fructose, glucose, dextrose, galactose, allulose, maltose, high dextrose equivalent hydrolysed starch syrup, xylose, and combinations thereof.

8. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the bulking agent of the amorphous porous particles is selected from the group consisting of maltodextrins, milk powder, whey powder, soluble wheat dextrin, soluble corn dextrin, polydextrose, soluble fiber and combinations thereof.

9. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the surfactant is 0.5 to 15 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

10. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the surfactant is 1 to 10 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

11. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the surfactant is 1 to 3 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

12. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the bulking agent is 5 to 70 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

13. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the bulking agent is 10 to 40 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

14. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the bulking agent is 10 to 30 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

15. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the bulking agent is 10 to 25 wt. % of the amorphous porous particles.

16. The food product according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous porous particles further comprise skimmed milk, wherein the sugar comprises sucrose, and a ratio of the sucrose to the skimmed milk is between 0.5 to 1 and 2.5 to 1 on a dry weight basis.

Assignees

• Nestle Sa

Inventors

• Meunier Vincent Daniel Maurice
• Dupas-Langlet Marina
• Mahieux Julien Philippe Nicolas
• Whitehouse Andrew Steven
• Forny Laurent

Classifications

• A23B2/93

  Spray drying · CPC title

• A23G1/40 Primary

  characterised by the carbohydrates used, e.g. polysaccharides (containing dairy products A23G1/46) · CPC title

• A23G1/36

  characterised by the fats used (containing dairy products A23G1/46) · CPC title

• A23G1/46

  containing dairy products · CPC title

• A23G3/42

  characterised by the carbohydrates used, e.g. polysaccharides (containing dairy products A23G3/46) · CPC title