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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michel Serpelloni, Beuvry-les-Bethune, FR;
Assignee:
Roquette Freres, Lestrem, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23G 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23G 3/00 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a sugar-free confectionery, characterized in that it comprises a sweetening mass comprising branched maltodextrins having between 15 and 35% of 1→6 glucoside linkages, a reducing sugar content of less than 20%, a polymolecularity index of less than 5 and a number-average molecular mass Mn at most equal to 4500 g/mol and at least one polyol chosen from the group consisting of erythritol, mannitol and maltitol, the said branched maltodextrins constituting from 0.5 to 75% of the sweetening mass, and the said polyol constituting at most 13.5% and preferably at most 10% of the sweetening mass which it comprises.