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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Joanna Wentzel, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Barry David Glazier, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Isabella Bernarda Maximillienne Van Damme, Slough, GB;
MARS, INCORPORATED, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a heat resistant fat based confection wherein at least a portion of a natural and/or artificial sweetener or milk or cocoa solids component thereof has an average particle size of greater than 50 microns. Premixes are also provided including the unmilled sweetener or milk or cocoa solid and a polyol are also provided, and in those embodiments wherein the premixes are used to prepare the fat based confection, heat resistance of the same may be further enhanced. Methods of making the fat based confection, with or without using the premix, are also provided.