Patent ID: 7785646

Claim:
A compressible powdery sugar composition, comprising: spray-dried particles having hollow forms being made up of a skeleton formed by a first type of crystal forming interstices in which is situated a second type of crystal, and said first type of crystal being a size greater than approximately 5 μm and said second type of crystal being lower than 5 μm, and said spray-dried particles comprising: (i)approximately 90% to approximately 99% by weight of sucrose, (ii)at least one anti-crystallizing agent amounting to approximately 1% to approximately 10% by weight, said anti-crystallizing agent being selected from the group consisting of inverted sugar, maltodextrins and oligosaccharides, and intense sweetening agents being excluded from said anti-crystallizing agent, and (iii)optional additives selected from the group consisting of flavorings, colorants and active ingredients, wherein said composition has an apparent density between approximately 0.6 and approximately 0.8 g/cm 3 .