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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2002
Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Okayama, JP;
Toshio Miyake, Okayama, JP;
Toshiyuki Sugimoto, Okayama, JP;
Toshio Miyake, Okayama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo, Okayama, JP;
Abstract
Since conventional high pullulan content shaped products have a low stability to the change of humidity, the object of the present invention is to provide a high pullulan content shaped product having a satisfactory stability to the change of humidity, a process for producing the same, and uses. The present invention solves the above object by establishing high pullulan content shaped product with an improved stability to the change of humidity by incorporating a prescribed amount of α,α-trehalose into pullulan in preparing the high pullulan content shaped product, and a process for producing the same, and by providing uses of the high pullulan content shaped product obtainable by the process.