Abstract: Chocolate-based confectionery products having improved heat-resistance are prepared by mixing a polyol gel in particulate form with a flowable chocolate or a flowable mixture of ingredients for preparing a chocolate or chocolate-type composition in an amount to obtain a product having, based upon the product weight, a polyol content of from 0.2% to 60% by weight.

Abstract: A method of encapsulating volatile aroma compounds in which an inert gas, such as carbon dioxide, is dissolved in an aromatized edible liquid, and the aromatized, gasified liquid is co-extruded with a molten carbohydrate material having a glass transition temperature of between 20.degree. C. and 80.degree. C. to provide a continuous stream having an outer shell of the carbohydrate material surrounding an inner core of the aromatized, gasified liquid. The continuous stream is extruded into a pressure chamber having a pressure higher than the internal pressure of the inert gas in the aromatized liquid core, and is maintained under such pressure until the carbohydrate shell has cooled to below the glass transition temperature to provide capsules having a shell of hardened amorphous carbohydrate glass surrounding an inner core of gasified, aromatized liquid.