Particulate flavor compositions and process to prepare same

USRE37860E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignee

• FIRMENICH SA · CH

Inventors

• Anthony Blake · Nyon, CH
• Philip Attwool · Peacehaven, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2002
• Expiry date: May 5, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

The process provides particulate flavor compositions having a flavor oil fixed in a particulate polyol material. It consists in mixing a mono- or disaccharide, a polysaccharide and water with a minor but flavor effective amount of a flavor oil such that the resulting particular flavor compositions possess a Tg below room temperature, and extruding the resulting homogeneous substrate at a temperature to form a melt which on cooling solidifies as a hard rubbery amorphous material having the flavor oil entrapped therein.