| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a low-calorie sweetener free from agglomeration in storage, enabling easy take-out from a package in use and useful for a patient of diabetes, hyperlipemia, etc., by forming a slurry containing erythritol and drying the formed product. SOLUTION: The objective low-calorie sweetener is produced by drying a formed product of a slurry (having a water content of preferably 0.99-16.7%) containing erythritol and preferably further one or more substances selected from extract of Rakanka (fruit of Momordica grosvenori), licorice extract and stevia extract (stevioside or rebaudioside). The slurry preferably contains a pigment and/or a perfume and the formed material has an irregular hexahedral form having faces 1a, 1b, 1c. |
