Abstract: A method of making a flavoured sweetener or food product by incubating an unrefined plant extract containing sucrose as the main solute with a microorganism or microorganisms to form a modified unrefined plant extract; evaporating water from the modified sucrose-based plant extract to form a concentrate; and cooking the concentrate to develop colour and flavour to produce the flavoured sweetener is disclosed. The flavoured sweetener can serve as a coconut sugar substitute. In a preferred embodiment the unrefined plant extract comprises sugarcane juice or sugar beet juice, and the microorganisms may be selected from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus flexus, or a Klyveromyces species. The flavoured sweetener can be used to make a range of food and beverage ingredients and also food products including sauces, natural flavour extracts and flavour molecules, chocolate, health foods and convenience forms of the various forms of flavoured sweeteners.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 5, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 3, 2023
Assignee:
COCONUTZ PTE. LTD.
Inventors:
Peter Samuel James Cheetham, Christoph Langwallner, Margit Langwallner, Christian Hermansen, Candy Chuing Tey Shiang, Wen Jue Amelia Tan
Abstract: A method of making a flavoured sweetener or food product by incubating an unrefined plant extract containing sucrose as the main solute with a microorganism or microorganisms to form a modified unrefined plant extract; evaporating water from the modified sucrose-based plant extract to form a concentrate; and cooking the concentrate to develop colour and flavour to produce the flavoured sweetener is disclosed. The flavoured sweetener can serve as a coconut sugar substitute. In a preferred embodiment the unrefined plant extract comprises sugarcane juice or sugar beet juice, and the microorganisms may be selected from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus flexus, or a Klyveromyces species. The flavoured sweetener can be used to make a range of food and beverage ingredients and also food products including sauces, natural flavour extracts and flavour molecules, chocolate, health foods and convenience forms of the various forms of flavoured sweeteners.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 5, 2017
Publication date:
October 3, 2019
Applicant:
COCONUTZ PTE. LTD.
Inventors:
Peter Samuel James CHEETHAM, Christoph LANGWALLNER, Margit LANGWALLNER, Christian HERMANSEN, Candy Chuing Tey SHIANG, Wen Jue Amelia TAN