METHOD OF PURIFYING POLYDEXTROSE AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME

摘要

A process for purifying polydextrose to remove contaminants remaining from manufacturing sufficient to provide organoleptically-acceptable polydextrose ingredient for foodstuffs which includes intimately contacting an aqueous solution of polydextrose having a concentration of from about 10% to about 90% with a polar organic solvent in a ratio of polydextrose solvent of from about 5-45 of polydextrose to about 35-85 by weight of solvent. Furthermore, the mixture is allowed to equilibrate to form a substantially contaminant-containing fraction and a substantially polydextrose-containing fraction, followed by separating the fractions for use of the polydextrose-containing fraction. The present invention further includes compositions of foodstuffs including the purified polydextrose.