Patent ID: 7494667

Claim:
A soft capsule shell comprising: (a) a gum consisting essentially of a high acyl gellan gum having more than 40% acetyl and more than 45% glyceryl residual substitutents per repeat unit and a low acyl gellan gum having less than 25% acetyl and less than 15% glyceryl residual substitutents per repeat unit wherein the high acyl gellan gum is present in an amount of from about 0.3 to about 5% and the low acyl gellan gum is present in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 4% by weight of the composition on a wet basis; (b) a starch; and (c) a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is in an amount of from 30 to 80% of the starch (w/w dry basis).