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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
James R Morano, Somerset, NJ (US);
Assignees:
Ingredient Technology Corporation, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Innovative Sweeteners Incorporated, Somerset, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ; C08B / ; C13F / ; C13D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
127 42 ; 127-2 ; 127-5 ; 127-6 ; 127 29 ; 127 63 ;
Abstract
The invention is a process for recrystallizing sugar. The invention involves admixing a first quantity of a powdered sugar and a second quantity of an adjuvant, such as an invert sugar, to provide a sugar blend. The sugar blend has up to about 3 percent moisture. The invention then involves mixing the sugar blend with a high shear extruding means at a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and about 300.degree. F. with a residence time in the extruding means of between about 0.5 second and about 12 seconds. The invention includes the product of a combined phase recrystallized sugar.