Patent ID: 6821535
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: A23G

Abstract:
A process for the production of chewable coated cores comprising the hard panning of chewable cores in a coating pan or drum wherein a syrup containing at least one of a crystallizable polyol, a crystallizable sugar or mixtures thereof is intermittently sprayed over a rotating bed of the cores and said cores are dried between sprayings with a flow of air, said cores being dried between sprayings by controlling effective parameters of said drying air selected from the group consisting of air humidity, air temperature, air flow speed, air flow time, air flow direction and any combination thereof and stopping said drying before the relative humidity of the outlet flow of drying air has reached its basic level at which its gradient has flattened to a plateau, so as to cause a substantial residual moisture to remain in the drying coating layer at the start of a subsequent spraying phase.