Applying sugar-free coating to chewing gum and sweets - by coating with aq. soln. of sweet hygroscopic cpd. and then with powder of the cpd.

摘要

A sugarless coated comestible is prepd. by applying to cores of the comestible a coating syrup comprising an aq. soln. of a normally sweet hygroscopic material (I), a binder, an antiadhesive cpd. and a dispersion agent. This is followed by applying a powdery compsn. comprising (I) in dry form, so that at least a part of the latter is absorbed on the syrup to form a coating on the core. The process is partic. for applying a coating free from sugar and contg. sorbitol in crystalline form to chewing gums, sweets and medical and therapeutic prods. in pill or tablet form.