Sugar – starch – and carbohydrates – Processes – Carbohydrate manufacture and refining
Patent
1995-12-22
1998-11-10
Bell, Mark L.
Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates
Processes
Carbohydrate manufacture and refining
127 29, 127 44, 127 65, 426 28, 426 48, 426 49, 426 52, 426658, C13D 108, C08B 3000, A23L 110, A23B 710
Patent
active
058337571
ABSTRACT:
A process which permits the facile conversion of green bananas to a sugar syrup uses a sequence of steps involving grinding the bananas, heating the bananas, treating the bananas with an alpha amylase to convert the starch granules into lower molecular weight molecules (liquefaction), changing conditions and treating the low molecular weight starch molecules and other substances in the liquefied fluid with the enzymes, amyloglucosidase, pectinase, cellulase, macerase, etc., filtering the resultant fluid to remove the solids, and, if necessary, evaporating the sugar solution to a suitable concentration. Use of elevated pH in each of the enzymatic conversion steps was found to greatly increase the glucose yield.
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Barrett Cheryl L.
Blatteis Charles S.
Verhoff Francis H.
Bell Mark L.
Hailey Patricia L.
Meyers Philip G.
U.S. Tech, Inc.
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