Patent ID: 7521074

Claim:
A method for producing chewing gum products, which method comprises at least the steps of: feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder, pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum composition through a die plate, cutting the extruded gum composition in a liquid filled chamber, said cutting producing gum granules of weights per granule in the range of 0.0001 g to 0.008 g, mixing the extruded gum granules with one or more ingredients selected from the group consisting of flavours, bulk sweeteners, intense sweeteners, colouring agents, fillers, nutrients, pharmaceuticals, and tabletting aids, conveying the extruded and cut granules mixed with said one or more ingredients to a tablet pressing apparatus, and then compressing at least said gum granules into compressed chewing gum tablets.