Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing directly compressible granular mannitol, wherein a raw material essentially constituted of powder mannitol is subjected to an extrusion treatment inside an installation comprising a heating zone and an extrusion die, the supply flow rate of the installation with raw material as well as the parameters of the extrusion treatment, namely the temperature existing inside the heating zone, the diameter of the extrusion die and the driving speed of the raw material inside the heating zone being selected so that at the exit of the die and before the exit of the mannitol from the latter, the mannitol is partly fused.

Abstract: For conferring cheese making properties on milk before or after a heat treatment carried out at temperatures above 78.degree. C., which milk is intended for the manufacture of renneted cheeses, an effective quantity, for example 5 to 200 g/hl, of acidogenic agent, for example glucono-delta-lactone, is added before or after the said heat treatment. Application to the manufacture of renneted cheeses from milks which have been heated to a high temperature.

Abstract: Directly compressible powdered maltitol having a richness in maltitol higher than 85% by weight and a compressibility, determined in a test A, higher than 80 N.

Abstract: Sugarless speckled chewing-gum having, distributed in the mass, a plurality of colored sweetening particles, possibly flavored and possibly sweetened with artificial sweeteners, the coloring agent being confined in the sweetener particles.

Abstract: Sugarless ice cream characterized by the fact that it comprises, as sweetening and texture forming agent, a polyol content of DP equal to or higher 3, higher than 2%, preferably than 3% or more preferably still than 6% and less than 15%, preferably than 12% by weight with respect to dry matter in the finished product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a granular mannitol directly compressible and free from binder, characterized by the fact that its granulometric fraction from 400 to 500 .mu.m has a friability less than 65% in a test A.

Abstract: Pastilles of the lozenge type based on crystalline sorbitol or fructose including, in their constituent mass, a plurality of cavities, preferably microcavities, of which some at least communicate with the surface.