Abstract: In the preparation of food with the aid of microorganisms, the latter are directly protected against viral or phage attack by the addition of formic acid or esters of formic acid or salts of formic acid and/or tetrahydrofolic acid. Furthermore, an indirect protection by inactivating the bacterial viruses in the environment is described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a preparation for deactivating viruses inside living human and animal organisms by application of a terpene obtainable from aromatic plants by steam distillation. The terpenes cited are: black pepper oil, cinnamon flower oil, cardamom oil, linallyl acetate, cinnamic aldehyde, safrol, carvon and cis/trans citral.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a preparation for deactivating viruses inside living human and animal organisms by application of a terpene obtainable from aromatic plants by steam distillation. The terpenes cited are: black pepper oil, cinnamon flower oil, cardamon oil, linallyl acetate, cinnamic aldehyde, safrol, carvon and cis/trans citral.

Abstract: A sweetening tablet containing 70 to 95% of APM (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methylester) with a particle size of from 0.01 to 0.4 mm, up to 1% of an auxiliary tabletting agent, and the rest a solubility accelerator which is a jellifier that swells in water and forms insulating layers enveloping the APM granules.

Abstract: A sweetening tablet containing 100 parts by weight of APM (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methylester) with a particle size of from 0.01 to 0.4 mm, 150 to 400 parts of glycine, 10 to 40 parts solubility accelerator, and up to 4 parts auxiliary tabletting agent, in each case based on dry weight.

Abstract: Living cultures of microorganisms used in the preparation of foodstuffs by microbiological processing are protected against attack by bacteriophage viruses by the addition thereto of terpene. The terpene is added in an amount which is effective to obtain viricidal activity but ineffective to cause toxic effects on the microorganisms. The terpene is one obtainable from aromatic plants by steam distillation. Terpenes or mixtures of terpenes which have proved suitable are those obtained from black pepper oil, cinnamon flower oil, cardamon oil, linallyl acetate, cinnamic aldehyde, safrol, carvon and cis/ trans citral, used individually or mixed together. They may added dissolved in a carrier such as 1,2-propanediol. The terpenes demonstrate a viricidal activity in a concentration which is one or more powers of ten lower than the concentration at which the terpenes have toxic effects on the microorganisms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a preparation for deactivating viruses inside living human and animal organisms by application of a terpene obtainable from aromatic plants by steam distillation. The terpenes cited are: black pepper oil, cinnamon flower oil, cardamon oil, linallyl acetate, cinnamic aldehyde, safrol, carvon and cis/trans citral.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of .alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methylester, which method comprises reacting an ester of L-phenylalanine with N and .alpha.-carboxyl-protected L-aspartic acid, to produce an .alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methylester without racemization and isomer formation and in high yields.

Abstract: A process of preparing glucosylsorbitol suitable for direct use as a food-bulking agent, which process consists essentially of heating equimolar quantities of a mixture of glucose and sorbitol under vacuum in the presence of an effective amount of a nontoxic, edible di or tri carboxylic acid or acid anhydride as an acid catalyst, to provide a nontoxic, edible mixture containing glucosylsorbitol as a major component thereof.

Abstract: A method for preparing an .alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine alkyl ester, which method comprises: reacting a divalent alkali salt of aspartic acid, having an amino-protective group, with an organic halo ester compound, to form a monovalent, alkali-salt, mixed,anhydride aspartate compound; and condensing the mixed,anhydride aspartate compound with an alkyl ester of L-phenylalanine under alkaline conditions and reducing the pH to an acidic condition after condensation to free the amino and carboxyl groups, to form a mixture consisting essentially of the alpha and beta alkyl ester of .alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine.

Abstract: Artificial-sweetening compositions, useful as a low-calorie sweetening agent in the sweetening of foodstuff, and other low-calorie products are prepared by solubilizing 2,4,6,3'-tetrahydroxy-4'-methoxydihydrochalcone by combination and interaction of the water-insoluble dihydrochalcone with hydroxy-containing organic compounds, to provide water-soluble dihydrochalcone having enhanced sweetening power and improved aftertaste properties.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for the preparation of cryptocrystalline sweeteners, such as sorbitol, by the spraying of a heated, aqueous, low-viscosity, high-solids, sweetener solution, employing a cool, compressed, inert gas, through a nozzle into a fine spray and into a cooler atmosphere, to form very fine particles of the sprayed sweetener product.

Abstract: A neohesperidin dihydrochalcone-based sweetener composition which comprises neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, a water-soluble carrier, and optionally a taste modifier, the composition having an acidic pH and characterized by being a water-soluble, nondiscoloring composition with reduced or devoid of undesirable lingering aftertaste properties.

Abstract: A process of preparing free-flowing particles of fructose with or without dextrose, which process comprises: admixing a high fructose corn syrup with ethanol, the corn syrup and ethanol of defined moisture content, to form a clear homogeneous solution; seeding the solution with crystalline fructose and recovering free-flowing particles of crystalline fructose from the seeded solution.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of free-flowing crystalline fructose, which process comprises seeding an 88% to 96% by weight fructose syrup with 2% to 15% by weight of fructose seed crystals at 120.degree. F. to 160.degree. F., the seed crystals having a size not greater than 250 microns, and permitting crystallization to occur at about 50.degree. F. to 90.degree. F. and at a relative humidity of less than 70%.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a process for refining crude saccharin sodium (saccharin soluble) to remove organic contaminants. The process comprises extraction of an acid solution of the crude saccharin sodium, using methylene chloride to extract the contaminants.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an antispasmodic pharmaceutical composition which comprises an effective amount of a compound of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of the acyl radical of a carboxylic acid and hydrocarbyl; and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.