SHAPED CHEWING GUM PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME

摘要

Shaped chewing gum products are made by mixing gum base, amorphous bulk sweetener and crystalline bulk sweetener together to form a fluid composition and molding that composition into desired shapes. The molding may be accomplished by making multiple depressions in a bed of powder material, each depression having a desired shape; depositing the fluid composition into the depressions at a temperature at which the fluid composition will fill into the shapes of the depressions; allowing the fluid composition to set up to a consistency wherein the composition maintains the shape of the depression to form the shaped chewing gum products; and separating the shaped chewing gum products from the powder material. The chewing gum composition may be combined with another confectionery material to make a composite product.