Patent ID: 11896028
Assignee: INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS LLC
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 11:
12. A method of making a dual-textured confectionery product, comprising:
forming a tacky surface on at least a portion of a surface of a chewy confectionery composition substrate;
applying a first particulate coating composition having a first particle size distribution to at least a portion of the tacky surface to form an intermediate product comprising a surface;
forming a tacky surface on at least a portion of a surface of the intermediate product;
applying a second particulate coating composition having a second particle size distribution to at least a portion of the tacky surface to form the dual-textured confectionery product; and
optionally further packaging the product,
wherein the dual-textured confectionery product has a particulate coating having a multimodal particle size distribution, wherein the particulate coating is comprised of the first particulate coating composition and the second particulate coating composition and wherein a mode of the first particle size distribution is different from a mode of the second particle size distribution,
wherein the first particulate coating composition comprises a crystalline saccharide particulate having the first particle size distribution wherein 30- to 80% by weight of the first particulate coating composition has a particle size of greater than 1180 micrometers and less than 1700 micrometers and 0 to 15% by weight of the first particulate coating composition has a particle size that is greater than 1700 micrometers-; and
the second particulate coating composition comprises a crystalline saccharide particulate having the second particle size distribution wherein 30- to 75% by weight of the second particulate coating composition has a particle size of greater than 425 micrometers and less than 850 micrometers and 0- to 5% by weight of the second particulate coating composition has a particle size that is greater than 850 micrometers,
wherein particle size is determined by sieve analysis.