Use of spray-dried and freeze-dried sugarcane leaf essence

• Main Authors: DAVIDSON RICHARD H, SCHULMAN MARVIN, HAWN REGINA D, ROSSY PHILLIP A, WARDER IRA T, MILLER KEVIN P, BOLEN PAUL L, PITTET ALAN OWEN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.06.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CHEWING GUM; CIGARETTES; CIGARS; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; ICE-CREAM; MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING ORCHEWING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATION THEREOF; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; SNUFF; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TOBACCO

Described are flavored calcium supplement compositions, beverage (e.g., coffee, milk, cocoa and citrus/whey protein), foodstuff, chewing gum and oral care (e.g., toothpaste and mouthwash) compositions and articles comprising flavored calcium supplements, foodstuff, beverage, chewing gum and oral care base compositions and intimately admixed therewith an aroma or taste augmenting, enhancing or imparting quantity and concentration of one or more freeze-dried or spray-dried tastand compositions containing tastands produced from Saccharum officinarum leaves (sugarcane leaves) by means of carrying out one or more physical separation unit operations on a plurality of such leaves, macerates thereof or mixtures of leaves and macerates thereof whereby one or more natural food additives, chewing gum additives or oral care additives is separated and isolated from the remainder of the plurality of leaves, macerates thereof or mixtures of leaves end macerates thereof. Such unit operations include pressurization using hydraulic press means, steam distillation, fractional distillation, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, volatile solvent extraction and/or charcoal column separation means.