Sanwa Kosan Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo

Toshiaki Komaki

Zenichi Yoshino

Yoshiki Kurahashi

Masakazu Mitsuhashi

Shigemitsu Ohsaki

Makoto Kittaka

Hiromasa Ueyama

Disclosed herein is a continuous manufacturing method for anhydrous crystalline maltitol comprising the following steps: (i) a heating and concentrating step where an aqueous solution containing maltitol in which maltitol is a main ingredient is continuously heated and concentrated to give a concentrated solution having a high concentration; (ii) a seed crystal adding and mixing step where the seed crystals are added to and mixed with the above concentrated solution with heating to give a massceuite containing the seed crystals; and (iii) a crystal aging step where the massceuite is subjected to disintegration, mixing, stirring and transfer in an atmosphere in which temperature and moisture are adjusted to proceed the crystallization.

Method for the continuous manufacture of anhydrous crystalline maltitol

A process for producing heat-moisture treated starch by treating starch in a pressure vessel resistant to both internal and external pressure and equipped with a vacuum line and pressure-steam line. The process comprises treating the starch in the pressure vessel under reduced pressure of 200 Torr or less in a first step, and then introducing steam into the pressure vessel in a second step, thereby performing heat treatment on the starch. The treating of the starch under reduced pressure tends to remove entrained air in spaces between particles of starch.

Process for producing heat-moisture treated starch

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Toshiaki Komaki