Abstract:
The invention relates to a compressed chewing gum tablet comprising particles of chewing gum base material, wherein the content of gum base is at least 5% by weight of the tablet and wherein the chewing gum tablet is compressed at a pressure of more than 12 kN/cm 2 and wherein the chewing gum tablet has a volume above 0.15 cm 3 . According to the invention, it has moreover been realized that a further rise in compression pressure improves the "crunch-feel".
Abstract:
The invention relates to 1 a chewing gum tablet (10, 20, 30, 40, 50) comprising at least two separate cohered chewing gum modules (11, 12; 21, 22, 23; 31, 32; 41, 42; 51, 52) at least one of said chewing gum modules comprising compressed gum base containing chewing gum granules, wherein the chewing gum tablet comprises a gum base content of at least 5% by weight of the tablet. According to the invention, a compressed chewing gum tablet has been obtained featuring extremely impressing abilities of incorporating well-defined amounts of chewing gum ingredients combined with acceptable rheological properties of the complete tablet.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing chewing gum granules. The method comprises at least the steps of feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder (2), pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum composition through a die plate (5), and cutting the extruded gum composition in a liquid filled chamber (4). Flavour is added to the composition in the extruder prior to the granulation into cooling liquid. The temperature and pressure of the flavoured gum composition is controlled so that the temperature is below 70°C when the pressure is in the range from 1 to 5hPa.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing chewing gum granules. The method comprises at least the steps of feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder (2), pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum composition through a die plate (5), and cutting the extruded gum composition in a liquid filled chamber (4). The extruded gum composition comprises at least 71%Wt. gum base and the cut granules are included in compressed gum tablets. The invention further relates to a chewing gum product, and to a chewing gum granulating system.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a chewing gum tablet comprising at least a first module cohered to a second module, wherein the first module comprises at least 5% by weight of compressed chewing gum base material, and wherein the tablet comprises chewing gum ingredients and wherein at least one of said modules is compressed by a force of more than 13.0 kN. According to the invention, an improved multi modular chewing gum tablet has been obtained featuring both advantageous release properties and textural properties due to the applied punch force.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a chewing gum piece comprising at least one inner filling (2) being enclosed by sugarless chewing gum substance (1), said chewing gum piece being provided with an anti-sticking agent (4), and said chewing gum piece being provided with a coating (6) at least partly encapsulating said chewing gum piece and said anti-sticking agent.
Abstract:
The invention relates to compressed chewing gum tablet (37) comprising a chewing gum center (38), said gum center (38) comprising a compression of gum base granules (32) and chewing gum additives (33), said chewing gum additives comprising sweeteners and flavors, at least a first part of said gum base granules (32) comprising granules of flavor incorporated gum base. At least a second part of said gum base granules (32) comprising granules of conventional gum base.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing chewing gum granules. The method comprises at least the steps of feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder (2), pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum composition through a die plate (5), and cutting the extruded gum composition in a liquid filled chamber (4) so that the cut gum granules have weights per granule in the range of 0.0001 g to 0.008 g.