Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Involving ion exchange – sequestering or chelating material
Patent
1996-04-17
1997-08-12
Pratt, Helen
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Involving ion exchange, sequestering or chelating material
426333, 426549, 426599, 426616, 426655, A23L 278
Patent
active
056563140
ABSTRACT:
A hydroxycitric acid concentrate prepared from Garcinia rind including 23 to 54% by weight free hydroxycitric acid, 6 to 20% by weight lactone of hydroxycitric acid, 0.001 to 8% by weight citric acid, and 32 to 70% by weight water, wherein the free hydroxycitric acid, the lactone of hydroxycitric acid and the citric acid constitute 94 to 99% by weight of total solutes dissolved in the water. Also disclosed is a method of preparing such a concentrate from Garcinia rind, as well as food products containing hydroxycitric acid.
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Balasubramanvam Karanam
Bhandari Ashok Kumar
Moffett Scott Alexander
Ravindranath Bhagavathula
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