Nutraceuticals or nutritional supplements and method of making

US6949264B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company · US

Inventors

• Gordon N. McGrew · Evanston, US
• David G. Barkalow · Woodridge, US
• Sonya S. Johnson · Woodridge, US
• David W. Record · River Forest, US
• Mansukh M. Patel · Downers Grove, US
• Jack D. Nimz · Wauconda, US
• Steven E. Zibell · Palos Heights, US
• Robert J. Yatka · Orland Park, US
• Michael J. Greenberg · Northbrook, US
• Rebecca Ann Aumann · Chicago, US
• Daniel J. Zyck · North Riverside, US
• Daniel J. Sitler · Woodridge, US
• Jeffrey S. Hook · Berwyn, US
• James Maxwell · Chicago, US
• Michael A. Reed · Evanston, US
• Victor V. Gudas · Chicago, US
• Philip G. Schnell · Downers Grove, US
• Henry T. Tyrpin · Palos Park, US
• Michael P. Russell · Evergreen Park, US
• David L. Witkewitz · Bridgeview, US
• Joo H. Song · Northbrook, US
• Donald J. Townsend · Chicago, US
• Donald Seielstad · Carlyle, US
• Ronald L. Ream · Plano, US
• Christine L. Corriveau · Orland Park, US
• William J. Wokas · Bolingbrook, US
• Thomas M. Tongue, Jr. · Joliet, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 21, 2000
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2005
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61K9/0056
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for producing a chewing gum with a controlled release active agent, as well as the chewing gum so produced, is obtained by physically modifying the release properties of the active agent, such as a nutraceutical or nutritional supplement, by coating and drying. The active agent is coated by encapsulation, partially coated by agglomeration, entrapped by absorption, or treated by multiple steps of encapsulation, agglomeration, and absorption. The coated active agent is preferably then co-dried and particle sized to produce a release-modified active agent for use in chewing gum. The active agent may also be used in a coating on a chewing gum product, as part of a rolling compound applied to the chewing gum product, or as a part of the liquid in a liquid-center chewing gum product.