STEVIA COATED SUGAR GRANULES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

摘要

A low-calorie sweetener composition, and method of manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a first sweetener having a mean particle size of between 100-350 μm in diameter and coating the first sweetener with a second sweetener in an aqueous solution. The second sweetener including at least one steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition optimally includes table sugar having a mean granular size of 100-300 μm as the first sweetener and the second sweetener is a steviol glycoside including Rebaudioside A having a 95% or greater purity coating with a thickness of 0.1-20 μm. The preferred composition has less than 2% steviol glycoside on a dry weight basis.

主权项

1. A method for producing a sweetener composition comprising:
a) providing a first sweetener including table sugar having a mean particle size of between 100-350 μm in diameter; b) providing a second sweetener in an aqueous solution including at least one steviol glycoside; c) using an ultrasonic sprayer to coat the first sweetener with the second sweetener, the ultrasonic spray has an ultrasonic transducer, the ultrasonic transducer resonates at between 35 kHz and 60 kHz; and d) drying the sweetener composition to between 0.5-5% moisture content to yield a sweetener composition.