Noncarbohydrate Sweetener Or Composition Containing Same Patents (Class 426/548)
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Patent number: 11504408Abstract: A method for treating autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease includes a step of identifying a subject exhibiting symptoms of autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease administering a fasting mimicking diet. A probiotic composition for gastrointestinal autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease Bacteroides acidifaciens, Bifidobacterium choerinum, and combinations thereof is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Valter D. Longo, Min Wei, Priya Rangan
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Patent number: 11497227Abstract: Low cariogenic and low-laxation chewy confections comprising a non-cariogenic sweetener comprising erythritol and a doctoring agent comprising at least one of sucromalt, linear inulin, branched inulin, brown rice syrup, indigestible dextrin, polydextrose, isomaltooligosaccharide, and soluble corn fiber are provided. Methods for preparing low cariogenic and low-laxation chewy confections are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANYInventors: David Barkalow, Andrea Haseleu, Chia-Hua April Hsu, Niku Tseng
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Patent number: 11464250Abstract: Disclosed is a natural compound sweetener, comprising mogroside V, rebaudioside A, natural tea theanine and dietary fibre. The method for preparing the sweetener comprises the steps of: (1) dissolution, filtration, concentration and sterilization: dissolving the mogroside V, rebaudioside A, natural tea theanine and dietary fibre in water, filtering, concentrating in a vacuum, and sterilizing to obtain a sterilized solution; and (2) paste-collection, drying and granulation: carrying out paste-collection on the sterilized solution obtained in the step (1), vacuum drying the collected liquid paste, and drying and then granulating the dry powder to obtain the sweetener.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HUNAN HUACHENG BIOTECH INCInventors: Weian Long, Huaxue Huang
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Patent number: 11432573Abstract: Natural sweetener compositions are disclosed, which generally include various combinations of steviol glycosides extracted from a Stevia rebaudiana plant; Siraitia grosvenorii (Monk Fruit) plant extract (including mogrosides extracted from such plant species); and an amino acid component consisting of free glycine. The natural sweetener compositions may optionally further include gymnemic acid (such as an extract of a Gymnemic sylvestre herb that includes 25%-75% gymnemic acid). The natural sweetener compositions may consist essentially of those two, three, or four components—or may be included in beverages, beverage powders, and foods.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventor: Franco Cavaleri
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Patent number: 11399558Abstract: A rebaudioside D containing sweetening composition exhibiting taste like sugar containing a carrier and rebaudioside D is disclosed. A method of making the rebaudioside D containing sweetening composition; and a method of using the rebaudioside D containing sweetening composition are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Heartland Consumer Products LLCInventors: Joseph Panarisi, Jacob Paul Jae, Roma Vazirani
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Patent number: 11344051Abstract: The present invention relates to a steviol glycoside having the formula of (I) wherein at least 3 sugar moieties are present at positions R1 and at least three sugar moieties are present at position R2 and wherein the steviol glycoside comprises at least seven sugar moieties all of which are linked, directly or indirectly, to the steviol aglycon by ?-linkages.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Robertus Antonius Mijndert Van Der Hoeven, Peter Philip Lankhorst, Silvia Gosiewska
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Patent number: 11291233Abstract: Rebaudioside M compositions with improved aqueous solubility and methods for preparing the same are provided herein. The rebaudioside M compositions include (i) disordered crystalline compositions comprising rebaudioside M and rebaudioside D, (ii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and steviol glycoside mixtures and/or rebaudioside B and/or NSF-02, (iii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and at least one surfactant, polymer, saponin, carbohydrate, polyol, preservative or a combination thereof. Sweetened compositions, such a beverages, containing the rebaudioside M compositions with improved water solubility are also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Indra Prakash, Gil Ma, Avetik Markosyan, Youlung Chen
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Patent number: 11252978Abstract: The invention describes products, uses thereof, compositions thereof, and methods to prepare products formed from Maillard reaction products from a sugar donor and/or sweet tea extracts, stevia extracts, swingle (mogroside) extracts, one or more sweet tea extract components, one or more steviol glycosides, one or more mogrosides, one or more glycosylated sweet tea glycosides, one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides or one or more glycosylated mogrosides and an amine donor/reactant.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: EPC NATURAL PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingang Shi, Hansheng Wang, Xin Shi, Yi Wang, Wei Lv, Yingxiang Xin, Thomas Eidenberger, Weiyao Shi
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Patent number: 11236057Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the Formula 1 wherein A is an aromatic moiety; H is a hydrophobic group comprising a main alkyl chain having from about 3 to about 26 carbon atoms and comprising a C2 or greater alkyl chain branched from the main alkyl chain; and K is a hydrophilic group.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAInventors: Christoph Krumm, Kristeen Joseph, Dae Sung Park, Mahesh Mahanthappa, Paul J. Dauenhauer
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Patent number: 11229229Abstract: Steviol glycosides compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana extracts. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweeteners, sweetness enhancers, flavors, and flavor enhancers in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: PURECIRCLE USA INC.Inventor: Avetik Markosyan
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Patent number: 11206857Abstract: The invention describes a stevia sweetener with improved solubility in an aqueous solution for convenience of use in the food and beverage industry.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SWEET GREEN FIELDS INTERNATIONAL CO., LIMITEDInventors: Jingang Shi, Hansheng Wang
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Patent number: 11186881Abstract: A method of production of a homogeneous powdered product from a starting product in a liquid state, the starting product having sugars as at least 60% of its total solids, the method comprising: in the absence of air; pressurizing the starting product to a pressure greater than 1 bar; injecting a gas into the starting product to form a mixture in which the starting product is substantially saturated by the gas; and degassing the mixture into a continuous stream of transport gas such that, on contact with the transport gas, water from the mixture evaporates to leave the homogeneous powdered product.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: BIOMASS TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTDInventors: Maxwell Scott, Rodney Brown
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Patent number: 11154071Abstract: Provided is the novel sweetener and sweetness enhancer iso-mogroside V, compositions comprising the sweetener/sweetness enhancer for use in consumables (food products and products place in the oral cavity including mouth wash and other dental hygiene products), and sweetened or sweetness enhanced food products comprising the novel sweetener/sweetness enhancer.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Givaudan SAInventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang
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Patent number: 11155888Abstract: Stevia compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni extracts. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweeteners, sweetness enhancers, flavors, flavor enhancers in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PURECIRCLE USA INC.Inventor: Avetik Markosyan
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Patent number: 11122824Abstract: Beverages having an improvement in continuity of aftertaste caused by Rebaudioside D (RebD) and Rebaudioside M (RebM) and methods of production thereof. A content (A) of catechin compound(s) in beverages is adjusted to within a certain range, a total content (B) of RebM and/or RebD in beverages is adjusted to within a certain range, and B/A is adjusted to within a certain range.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11066688Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising one or more steviol glycosides which composition comprises nitrogen in an amount of no more than about 1000 ppm. The invention also relates to a method for preparing a steviol glycoside composition, which method comprises: providing a steviol glycoside composition; combining the steviol glycoside composition with water to form a steviol glycoside solution; and crystallizing a steviol glycoside composition from the solution. The invention also relates to a method for reducing the nitrogen content of a steviol glycoside composition, which method comprises: providing a steviol glycoside composition which comprises nitrogen; combining the steviol glycoside composition with water to form a steviol glycoside solution; and crystallizing a steviol glycoside composition from the solution, thereby to reduce the amount of nitrogen in the steviol glycoside composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Robert Geertman, Igor Galaev
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Patent number: 11045401Abstract: A co-crystallization composition containing erythritol and an active; a method of making the co-crystallization composition; and a method of using the co-crystallization composition are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Heartland Consumer Products LLCInventors: Shyhyuan Liao, Joseph R. Panarisi, Steven J. Catani
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Patent number: 11019837Abstract: This disclosure provides beverage compositions comprising a pectin, a first xanthan gum, optionally a second xanthan gum, and a non-nutritive sweetener, such as steviol glycosides and blends thereof. These beverage compositions have improved mouthfeel properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: PEPSICO, INC.Inventors: Khushal Brijwani, William Mutilangi
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Patent number: 11019831Abstract: The present invention relates to a coffee drink composition comprising allulose, oligosaccharide and coffee extract, and a method of preparation thereof, and it provides a coffee drink composition having a high sugar content and a low calorie and can give more excellent sensory properties to coffee drinks such as Americano.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SAMYANG CORPORATIONInventors: Tae-Chul Han, Bong Chan Kim, Yong-In Kim, Il Seo, Seung Mi Lee, Hye Jin Lim
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Patent number: 11008407Abstract: Methods for producing an activated pectin-containing biomass composition are provided. The method includes (A) mixing a starting pectin-containing biomass material having an insoluble fiber component and an insoluble protopectin component with an aqueous solution of an alcohol to form a mixture; (B) activating the starting pectin-containing biomass material to form an activated pectin-containing biomass material having the insoluble fiber component and a soluble pectin component by subjecting the starting pectin-containing biomass material to (i) an activating solution formed by adding acid to the mixture to adjust the pH of the mixture within the range from at or about 0.5 to at or about 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: CP Kelco ApSInventors: Jan Aae Staunstrup, Carsten Klit, Jens Eskil Trudsø, Tommy Ewi Pedersen, Donald F. Hiscock
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Patent number: 10987250Abstract: The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for treating ear infections and clearing excess fluid from Eustachian tubes.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Try This First, Inc.Inventors: Scott Morehouse, Bradley Castillo, Gordon L Rogers
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Patent number: 10968470Abstract: The application provides a method for preparing rubusoside comprising steps of raw material crushing, flash extraction, double centrifugations, macroporous resin purification, desorption, enzymatic hydrolysis, organic film decoloring, concentration, crystallization and drying. The application optimizes the quality control of key process such as extraction, separation, purification and decolorization, and can obtain the rubusoside product with purity more than 99%, and the product is white, no bitterness, less solvent residue, no pesticide residue, and stable quality.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp.Inventors: Jun Zhao, Yunfei Song, Wenguo Yang, Linfeng Zhang, Meiying Yang, Yuyu Li
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Patent number: 10912733Abstract: An effervescent tablet that exhibits rapid disintegration is disclosed. The effervescent tablet includes an effervescent agent that includes an acid and a base, a directly compressible sugar binder, a sweetener that includes at least one of Stevia and Monk fruit, a flavor agent that includes a gum Arabic carrier, and a lubricant derived from rice hulls.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Amerilab Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Carrie Kraling, Sarah Olson
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Patent number: 10905146Abstract: Rebaudioside M compositions with improved aqueous solubility and methods for preparing the same are provided herein. The rebaudioside M compositions include (i) disordered crystalline compositions comprising rebaudioside M and rebaudioside D, (ii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and steviol glycoside mixtures and/or rebaudioside B and/or NSF-02, (iii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and at least one surfactant, polymer, saponin, carbohydrate, polyol, preservative or a combination thereof. Sweetened compositions, such a beverages, containing the rebaudioside M compositions with improved water solubility are also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Indra Prakash, Gil Ma, Avetik Markosyan, Youlung Chen
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Patent number: 10906927Abstract: Novel steviol glycoside compounds characterized by a first group of four glucopyranose residues attached via the number 13 carbon (C13) of the steviol moiety and a second group of two or three glucopyranose residues attached via the number 19 carbon (C19) of the steviol moiety are described, and exemplified by compounds 1-4. These compounds can be present in a composition with other steviol glycosides (e.g., Reb D and Reb M) to enhance their solubilities. Accordingly, the novel compounds can facilitate the preparation of aqueous compositions having a higher concentration of steviol glycosides. A steviol glycoside composition including one or more of compounds 1-4 can be used as a sweetener composition to sweeten other compositions (sweetenable compositions) such as foods, beverages, medicines, oral hygiene compositions, nutraceuticals, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Cargill, IncorporatedInventors: Ting Liu Carlson, Dan Gaspard
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Patent number: 10905140Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and a compound of formula (1), wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of OH and OCH3, and R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and OH, R1 and R2 comprise at least one OH group, and when R1 is OH then R2 is H (trilobatin), and when R1 is OCH3 then R2 is OH (HDG), in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang, Chad Allen Hansen, Charles Benjamin Naman, Christopher Todd Simons, Jay Patrick Slack, Kimberley Gray
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Patent number: 10874121Abstract: Naturally sweetened reduced calorie, light, or low-calorie beverage products and methods for making the same are disclosed. The beverage products comprise at least one fruit juice, at least one natural non-nutritive sweetener, and homogenized pulp.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Tropicana Products, Inc.Inventors: Teodoro Rivera, Jessica Oesterling
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Patent number: 10857128Abstract: The present invention relates to a food composition and a pharmaceutical comprising D-tryptophan. The present invention further relates to D-tryptophan for use in the treatment, prevention or amelioration of a diseases associated with Treg or TH2 cells, such as allergy and in particular asthma.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)Inventors: Susanne Krauss-Etschmann, Anton Hartmann, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Michael Schloter
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Patent number: 10827773Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and at least one sweetness enhancer in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof. The sweetness enhancer is selected from naringin dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, swingle extract, rubusoside, rubus extract, rebaudioside, and stevioside.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Givaudan SAInventors: Chad Allen Hansen, Jay Patrick Slack, Christopher Todd Simons
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Patent number: 10772346Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide a sweetener composition comprising stevia glycosides that may be stably soluble in an aqueous solution, and methods for their manufacture. In various embodiments, the sweetener composition may comprise at least one stevia glycoside and a natural emulsifier. The natural emulsifier of the sweetener composition may enhance the aqueous solubility of the stevia glycoside to increase the concentration of dissolved stevia glycoside relative to its inherent aqueous solubility. The sweetener composition may be stably soluble upon formulation into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May, Julian E. Zamora
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Patent number: 10751333Abstract: Disclosed herein are liquid diluents, formulations, and kits for preparing reconstituted suspensions of a proton pump inhibitor (e.g., omeprazole). The present disclosure also provides formulations for liquid diluents that do not have a tendency for gel formation following exposure to freeze-thaw cycles.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: CUTISPHARMA, INC.Inventors: Zeus Pendon, Steven Dinh
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Patent number: 10736338Abstract: The invention relates to a process for formulating an ice cream wherein a high percentage of the added sugars (from 0% to 20%) is substituted for complex sugar substances known as prebiotics which, after pasteurization, can be partly or totally fermented by probiotic bacteria of the genera Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Streptococcus, or hydrolyzed by enzymes to obtain a partly fermented ice cream with a low sugar content and containing a high number (>106/ml) of live probiotic bacteria. The different prebiotics are used as individual ingredients or in mixtures and in diverse concentrations. The invention also relates to an ice cream comprising a reduced content of added sugars such as sucrose, dextrose, glucose syrup, partly or totally substituted for prebiotics, optionally fermented by probiotics and/or hydrolyzed by enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: ALI GROUP S.r.l.—CARPIGIANIInventors: Andrea Cocchi, Roberto Lazzarini
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Patent number: 10729163Abstract: Glucosyl stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. The glucosylation was performed by cyclodextrin glucanotransferase using the starch as source of glucose residues. The short-chain glucosyl stevia compositions were purified to >95% content of total steviol glycosides. The compositions can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: PureCirlce Sdn BhdInventor: Avetik Markosyan
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Patent number: 10660356Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and at least one sweetness enhancer in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof. The sweetness enhancer is selected from naringin dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, swingle extract, rubusoside, rubus extract, rebaudioside, and stevioside.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Givaudan SAInventors: Chad Allen Hansen, Jay Patrick Slack, Christopher Todd Simons
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Patent number: 10645964Abstract: Catechin compound(s)-containing beverages having reduced bitterness and astringency of catechin compound(s) while maintaining tea-like preferable flavors, methods of production thereof, and the like are provided. The content of catechin compound(s) in a beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, the total content of RebM and RebD in the beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, and the weight ratio of the total content of RebD and RebM to the content of the catechin compound(s) is adjusted to within a certain range.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10631553Abstract: A process for making an alcohol-containing frozen comestible substantially devoid of ice crystal agglomerations and/or ice crystal striations and/or trapped air and/or liquids is provided. The process includes substantially flash freezing an alcohol-containing liquid composition so as to produce a substantially single-phase solid alcohol-containing composition. The solid alcohol-containing composition, and/or pieces thereof, are then exposed to an environment having temperature of from about ?15° C. to about ?30° C. so as to soften the solid alcohol-containing compositions and/or meld the pieces thereof into a single mass. The temperature of the single mass is then reduced so as to harden the single mass. Also, a process for incorporating a frozen alcohol-containing liquid composition into a non-alcohol-containing fraction is provided. Alcohol-containing liquid compositions suitable for use in the process are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: GELATO FRESCO, INC.Inventor: David Hart Melvin
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Patent number: 10612065Abstract: Disclosed are methods of releasing or enriching for steviol glycosides produced by yeast. The disclosed methods enhance or improve the release or enrichment of the steviol glycosides.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Cargill, IncorporatedInventors: James C. Anderson, Robert J. Brower, III, Ting Liu Carlson, Belit Flores, Dan S. Gaspard, Kristopher T. Mortenson, Richard Nygaard, Nicole Paulson, Maribeth Rasmussen
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Patent number: 10609942Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide compositions and methods for a sweetener composition comprising stevia leaf extract, stevia glycosides, and/or Luo Han Guo fruit extract. The sweetener composition provides enhanced taste and/or flavor properties as compared to other non-caloric or low-caloric sweeteners. The sweetener composition has a reduced aftertaste relative to stevia leaf extract and/or purified steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition may be formulated into any edible sweetened substances.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: James and Carol May Family, LLLPInventors: Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Michael Perry May, James A. May
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Patent number: 10583314Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of sweet steviol glycoside compounds, particularly rebaudioside B, in sweetening compositions. Sweetening compositions comprising selected amounts of rebaudioside B have been shown to possess favorable flavor profiles when compared to other high intensity sweetener compounds and are useful in the preparation of consumables.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: TATE & LYLE INGREDIENTS AMERICAS LLCInventors: John R. Bridges, Alfred Carlson, Penelope A. Patton
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Patent number: 10561165Abstract: The invention describes a stevia sweetener with improved solubility in an aqueous solution for convenience of use in the food and beverage industry.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Sweet Green Fields International Co., LimitedInventors: Jingang Shi, Hansheng Wang
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Patent number: 10501817Abstract: Processes for the production of reduced calorie sweetening compositions having a natural sweetener such as a steviol glycosides (e.g., rebaudioside A) and sucrose as the major components is described, as well as the product of such processes having unique physical and sensory characteristics. In particular, a co-crystallization process of manufacturing a reduced calorie sweetening composition that comprises both sucrose and at least one natural sweetener as a co-crystallized product is disclosed, as well as the free-flowing powder product resultant therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: IMPERIAL SUGAR COMPANYInventors: James P. Hammond, Roxanne Resch, Thomas Rathke, Darrell Gerdes
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Patent number: 10485256Abstract: The invention describes a stevia based sweetener/cyclodextrin complex with improved solubility and/or taste in an aqueous solution for convenience of use in the food and beverage industry.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: SWEET GREEN FIELDS INTERNATIONAL CO., LIMITEDInventors: Jingang Shi, Samil Ozavar, Hansheng Wang
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Patent number: 10485249Abstract: Stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PureCircle Sdn BhdInventors: Siddhartha Purkayastha, Avetik Markosyan, Marquita L. Johnson, Monica Moralma Garces Ortega
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Patent number: 10463620Abstract: A process for preparing a directly compressible erythritol composition is provided that is suitable for tableting. The composition includes a binding agent such as maltodextrin.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Catherine Patricia L. Boghmans, Petrus Wilhelmus Hubertus Antonius De Cock
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Patent number: 10448631Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods of preparing a cell, tissue, organ or plant for cryopreservation, wherein the method includes contacting the cell, tissue, organ or plant with a composition including sucrose and/or sucralose.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: East Carolina UniversityInventors: Anthony Kennedy, Jean-Luc Scemama, Jitka Virag, Edward R. Pennington
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Patent number: 10420360Abstract: Nobel Stevia Sweetening components are provided. Through the analysis of the components of the nobel Steviol Glycoside included in the Stevia extract and/or crystals, not only the quality control of sweeteners, but judgment on the correctness of indication of origin or infringement of right are facilitated since the raw material of the sweetener can be identified.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: MORITA KAGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyoshige Morita, Isao Fujita, Fumito Matsuura, Masaya Ota
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Patent number: 10414889Abstract: A water-soluble film is provided, which has excellent mechanical properties (higher tensile strength and higher tensile elongation) and can be formed into an excellent package which is free from deterioration of the tension of the water-soluble film over time even if containing liquid such as a liquid detergent packaged therein. The water-soluble film includes: (A) a polyvinyl alcohol resin; and (B) a plasticizer; wherein the plasticizer (B) includes a polyalcohol (b1) having a melting point of at least 80° C. and a polyalcohol (b2) having a melting point of not higher than 50° C.; wherein the plasticizer (B) is present in a proportion of at least 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol resin (A).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Hiura, Kazushi Oda, Katsuhiko Katsuma
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Patent number: 10398160Abstract: A taste and flavor profile modifying composition is described. The composition includes a blend of glucosylated steviol glycosides and residual steviol glycosides which can modify the intensity of a taste and/or flavor in a food or beverage product.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: PureCircle Sdn BhdInventors: Siddhartha Purkayastha, Avetik Markosyan
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Patent number: 10390547Abstract: A low cariogenic, low-laxation hard candy product having acceptable clarity and cold flow stability, contains a bulking sweetener agent, comprising isomaltulose, trehalose, erythritol or combinations thereof and a doctoring agent, comprising inulin, indigestible dextrin, sucromalt, polydextrose, or combinations thereof; wherein the bulking sweetener agent to doctoring agent ratio is 70/30 to 40/60 dry solids wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANYInventors: Chia-Hua Hsu, David G. Barkalow, Barbara Stawski
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Patent number: 10368570Abstract: Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: PureCircle Sdn BhdInventor: Avetik Markosyan