CENTERFILL DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR NUTRACEUTICALS

摘要

The present invention relates to a delivery system to control the dosing of nutraceuticals using centerfill confectionery and chewing gum technology. The centerfill has a shell which is a hard confectionery or a chewing gum and a soft core. The shell and the core may each have one or more nutraceuticals. The nutraceuticals are released from the shell by slow dissolution of the hard confection or by mastication of the chewing gum in the oral cavity, and are released from the core by rapid dissolution of core after the shell has been penetrated. The nutraceutical is a botanical, a mineral, a mineral salt or a mixture thereof. Preferably the shell contains one or more mineral or mineral salts, and the core contains one or more botanicals.