The Nutrasweet Company

Nutrasweet Property Holdings, Inc.

Jim Fotos

Ihab E Bishay

Indra Prakash

Nitin Vithalbhai Desai

Kurt L Wachholder

Michael J Trione

Aditi Dron

Ihab Bishay

This invention provides a process for preparing an agglomerate of N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and a carrier including the steps of: (a) providing a premix solution containing N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and a binding agent; (b) fluidizing a carrier; and (c) applying the premix solution of step (a) onto said fluidized carrier to form an agglomerate of said N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and said carrier. This invention is also directed to the novel agglomerates prepared by the process of this invention.

N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester agglomerate

N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester is converted from a light powder to relatively dustless, free-flowing particles with and without the use of binders using extrusion and spheronization processes. These particles are suitable for use in a variety of applications. Food products sweetened with extruded or spheronized N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and methods of sweetening food products with such N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester are also disclosed.

Particles of N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester

This disclosure relates to the co-crystallization of N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester with sugar in various ratios. The sugar co-crystallized sweetener is very soluble in water and has no dusting problems.

Co-crystallization of sugar and n-&lsqb;n-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-l &agr;aspartyl&rsqb;-l-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester

A process for preparing an agglomerate of N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and a carrier including the steps of: (a) providing a premix solution comprising N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and a binding agent; (b) fluidizing a carrier; and (c) applying the premix solution of step (a) onto said fluidized carrier to form an agglomerate of said N-&lsqb;N-(3,3-dimethylbutyl)-L-&agr;-aspartyl&rsqb;-L-phenylalanine 1-methyl ester and said carrier. Also the novel agglomerates prepared by the process of this invention.

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