Patent ID: 7312272

Claim:
A food coating substance comprising a plasticizer-free, aqueous copolymer poly(vinyl ester) dispersion which comprises A) 100 parts by weight of a copolymer of 40 to 95% by weight of vinyl esters of aliphatic saturated carboxylic acids having chain lengths of C 1 -C 18 , 5 to 60% by weight of bis-esters of maleic acid with monohydric aliphatic alcohols of a chain length of C1-C18, bis-esters of fumaric acid with monohydric aliphatic alcohols of a chain length of C1-C18, or mixtures thereof, and optionally other comonomers, B) 0.1 to 1.0 part by weight of an emulsifier, C) 1 to 12, parts by weight of a mixture of at least two poly(vinyl alcohols), consisting of at least 0.1 parts by weight of at least one poly(vinyl alcohol) having a degree of hydrolysis of between about 85 to about 90 mol % and at least 0.1 parts by weight of at least one poly(vinyl alcohol) having a degree of-hydrolysis greater than about 90 mol %, and D) optionally other stabilizers.