Societe Des Produits Nestle S.a.

Julien Philippe Nicolas Mahieux

Laurent Forny

Vincent Daniel Maurice Meunier

Marina Dupas-Langlet

Andrew Steven Whitehouse

Heiko Oertling

Stefan Palzer

Gerhard Niederreiter

Federico Mora

Mathieu Julien Destribats

Laure Poquet

Rodolfo De Acutis

Joydeep Ray

Annabel Bozon

Bruno Edgar Chavez Montes

Ulrich Bobe

Volker Kehlenbeck

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.

Bulk sugar replacer

The present invention relates to food compositions, in particular food compositions comprising a dispersion of particles in a continuous fat phase, the particles comprising fat droplets dispersed within an amorphous continuous phase. Further aspects of the invention are a process for manufacturing a food composition and the use of particles comprising fat droplets dispersed in an amorphous continuous phase to reduce the sucrose content and/or the saturated fatty acid content of a fat-continuous confectionery product.

Food composition

The present invention relates to porous particles comprising a sweetener, a bulking agent and a non-dairy protein. Further aspects of the invention relate to a food product comprising the porous particles; a process of making the porous particles and a fat based confectionery product containing them; and the use of the porous particles as sugar replacers in food products such as fat based confectionery products for example, chocolate.

Porous particles for reducing sugar in food

The present invention relates to amorphous porous particles comprising sugar, a bulkingagent 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.

The present invention provides a method for producing caffeine, wherein the method comprises: (a) combining a coffee extract comprising caffeine with an aqueous organic acid; (b) crystallizing the coffee extract and the aqueous organic acid so as to form caffeine-organic acid co-crystals in an aqueous phase; (c) separating the caffeine-organic acid co-crystals from the aqueous phase; and (d) extracting caffeine from the co-crystals obtained in step (c), wherein step (d) comprises placing the co-crystals in an aqueous solution so as to form a caffeine precipitate and a solution comprising the organic acid. Also provided is a method for producing a decaffeinated coffee extract comprising chlorogenic acids.

Caffeine production method

The present invention relates to amorphous porous particles comprising sugar, a bulking agent and surfactant, having a closed porosity of between 20 to 60%. Further aspects of the invention relate to a food product comprising the amorphous porous particles; a process of making the amorphous porous particles and a fat based confectionery product containing them; and the use of the amorphous porous particles as bulk sugar replacers in food products such as fat based confectionery products for example, chocolate.

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Julien Philippe Nicolas Mahieux