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  • Process for the recovery of sugar from sugar fines produced during the sugar-coating of cereal
    Patent number: 5213832
    Abstract: In a process for applying a sugar solution to the surface of a cereal product, drying the sugar-coated cereal, collecting the fines produced therefrom and recycling the collected fines back into the original sugar solution the improvement that the fines can be contacted with water to form a slurry of dissolved sugar and insoluble cereal which is then separated into a liquid sugar fraction and an insoluble cereal fraction by centrifugation in a solid bowl centrifuge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Kraft General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Johnson, David A. Cronk