JP3156921B2 - Sugar coating - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sugar-coated product obtained by sugar-coating a core material such as confectionery and pharmaceuticals, and more particularly, to the size of the core material even if the sugar-coating layer contains a powdered sugar alcohol. The present invention relates to a sugar coating having a sugar coating layer having a smooth and uniform thickness irrespective of a sheath shape.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, sugar-coated products are made by coating an edible core material such as confectionery and pharmaceuticals with a sugar-coating layer mainly composed of sucrose.
It is manufactured by a sugar coating method called "Sugar coating". For example, the "hard hanging method" is a method in which a sucrose solution is hung on the entire surface of a core material put into a rotating sugar coating pot, followed by air drying,
In this method, the operation of precipitating sucrose crystals is repeated, and the core material is coated with a crystal layer of sucrose to perform sugar coating.

[0003] Sucrose, which has been conventionally used in sugar coating, has recently been problematic in terms of cariogenicity and high calorie. Therefore, with the consumer's health consciousness, sucrose is used as an alternative sweetness source. Sugar alcohols having characteristics such as erosion and low calorie have been used.

However, sugar alcohols generally have the property of rapidly crystallizing due to subtle temperature changes. Therefore, when sugar coating is performed using the above-mentioned "hard coating method", the crystallization speed of sugar alcohols in the sugar coating process is increased. Cannot be controlled arbitrarily, and the size of the crystal grains varies, causing large irregularities on the surface of the core material, and the appearance is significantly deteriorated. In addition, since the sugar alcohol forms hard crystals to form a sugar coating layer, if the core material hits the inner wall of the pot while rotating in the sugar coating pot, the thin and fragile portion of the sugar coating layer is missing or There is a problem of cracking.

[0005] For this reason, when a sugar alcohol is used for the sugar coating layer, a "soft hanging method" is used, and the sugar alcohol is contained in a core material in a rotating sugar coating pot. After coating the coating liquid, the sugar alcohol preliminarily powdered is sprinkled, and the operation of blowing and drying is repeated several times, whereby a layer in which the powdered sugar alcohol is bound to the coating liquid is laminated to form a sugar coating layer. It is. In the "soft hooking method", a sugar alcohol which has been powdered in advance is used. Therefore, unlike the "hard hooking method", there is no problem of variation in the crystal particle diameter of the sugar alcohol, and the sugar coating layer immediately after drying is relatively flexible. Therefore, it is possible to continuously produce a large amount of sugar-coated clothing because it is not easily chipped even if it hits the inner wall of the sugar-coating pot.

[0006]

However, in the "soft coating method", generally, the water content of the coating liquid applied first to the core material is about 30 to 80% by weight so as to spread over the entire surface of the core material.
(Hereinafter referred to as “%”).
Therefore, when the finely ground sugar alcohol is sprinkled on the high moisture coating liquid, the fine powder sugar alcohol flows on the high moisture coating liquid while the core material rotates in the sugar coating pot,
In addition, since sugar alcohols inherently have a property of easily absorbing moisture and aggregating, they absorb water of the coating solution and agglomerate rapidly to be aggregated. In the sugar coating layer dried in such a state, since a mass of sugar alcohol is unevenly distributed, a large number of irregularities and wrinkles are generated, and the sugar coating layer does not have a uniform thickness. In addition, a crack is generated in a portion where the layer is thin. These irregularities, wrinkles, and cracks are less noticeable in a small core material such as a sphere because the sugar coating area is small, but in a large core material with many corners, the sugar coating area is large or the shape is complicated. In particular, large irregularities and wrinkles are noticeable, and the appearance of the sugar coating is significantly impaired. Therefore, when a sugar coating layer using a sugar alcohol is formed by the “soft hooking method”, the size and shape of the core material that can be used are actually limited.

[0007] The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sugar coating layer containing powdered sugar alcohol regardless of the size or shape of the core material. It is an object of the present invention to provide a sugar-coated product having a good appearance in which a sugar-coated layer is formed to have a smooth and uniform thickness.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to provide a sugar-coated product comprising a core material coated with a sugar-coating layer.
A first sugar-coating layer containing a powdered sugar alcohol containing 60% by weight or more of 60 mesh-on powder;
60 mesh pass powder covering 40 sugar coating layers
And a second sugar coating layer containing more than
This is achieved by a sugar coating characterized by being made.

That is, the present inventors have conducted studies to solve the above problems, and as a result, as a powdered sugar alcohol to be sprinkled when forming the first sugar coating layer which is in contact with the core material, 60 mesh-on is used. A second sugar for coating the first sugar-coating layer using a coarse-grained one containing 60% or more of powder
As a powdery substance to be sprinkled when forming a batter layer, 60
Fine powder containing more than 40%
When the core material is rotated in the sugar coating pot, the powdered sugar alcohol does not flow on the high-moisture coating liquid and does not agglomerate, but is uniformly dispersed over the entire surface of the core material. Since it is worn, it is possible to form a smooth and uniform thickness layer without irregularities, wrinkles and cracks, not only for core materials such as small and spherical shapes, but also for core materials with large shapes and many corners. The invention has been achieved.

Next, the present invention will be described in detail.

First, as the core material, for example, nuts, candy, tablet confectionery, chewing gum, gummy, small pieces of fruits and vegetables, baked confectionery such as chocolate, cookies and biscuits, corn puffs, foods such as instant noodle lumps and the like It is not limited at all as long as it is edible and solid, such as pulverized materials and granulated powders of various food materials and nutritional components.In addition, it is generally used as sugar-coated clothing such as pharmaceuticals. May be used alone or in combination.
Furthermore, in the present invention, it is possible to form a good sugar coating layer regardless of the size and shape of the core material, and the size is, for example, about 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm in height. 20mm x 20mm x height 1 as well as small core
Even with a large core material of about 0 mm, a sugar coating with good appearance can be obtained. In addition, the shape, as well as the general disk shape, spherical shape, pillow shape, as well as, for example, cylindrical shape, conical shape, pyramid shape, rectangular parallelepiped, cube and star shape, and also many corners such as confetti sugar and A core having a shape having projections can also be used. In addition, it is preferable to use a sugar alcohol, which will be described later, instead of sucrose as the saccharide used for the core material, since the entire sugar coating can be made sugarless.

The powdered sugar alcohol used for the sugar coating layer is, for example, sorbitol, maltitol, lactitol, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, reduced palatinose (palatinit), reduced starch saccharified product (reduced starch degradation product) and the like. Can be Among them, maltitol and sorbitol can form a good sugar coating layer without strictly controlling the environmental temperature of the sugar coating process, the temperature of the coating solution, and the like, and have a moderate drying speed, as compared with other sugar alcohols. Therefore, it is suitably used in terms of workability. In addition, reduced palatinose (palatinit)
Particularly, it is preferably used in that a crisp sugar coating layer is formed. These sugar alcohols may be in the form of granules or granules, in addition to powder, or a mixture of these plural forms may be powdered. Furthermore,
Along with the sugar alcohol, various powdered saccharides (sucrose, glucose, lactose, maltose, oligosaccharides, etc.) and non-sugar sweeteners such as aspartame, etc. may be used alone or in combination as appropriate as a sweetness source. Although good, a powdery sugar alcohol is desirably used alone from the viewpoint of forming a more uniform and smooth sugar coating layer.

[0013] In addition to the above-mentioned raw materials, the sugar-coated product of the present invention may contain, as an auxiliary raw material, various sugars (liquid sugar, honey, starch syrup, etc., in addition to the above-mentioned powdered sugar sweetener and non-saccharide sweetener), Starches (starch, modified starch, modified starch, starch degradation product, etc.), gum arabic, gelatin, wax, shellac, calcium,
Fats and oils, milks, powdered taste ingredients (tea powder, egg white powder, egg yolk powder, seasoning, powdered fruit juice, powdered extract, etc.), seasonings, flavors, acidulants, stabilizers, gelling agents, thickeners, Salts, colorings, nutrients (dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, DH
A, Bifidobacterium growth factor, etc.), Garcinia cambodia extract powder, Gymnema powder or the like may be used alone or in combination, and these may be added to the core material or sugar coating layer in powder or liquid form as required. Is also good. Above all, it is preferable to include water-soluble dietary fiber in the coating liquid, since the calorie of the sugar coating can be suppressed low while the thickness of the sugar coating layer is sufficiently formed. Examples of the water-soluble dietary fiber include, for example, indigestible dextrin (“Pinecoat” (manufactured by Shintoa Trading Co., Ltd.), “HL Paindex”).
(Shintoa Trading Co., Ltd.), corn fiber, pine fiber ("Fibersol" (Matsuya Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.)
)), Polydextrose, soya five (manufactured by Fuji Oil Co., Ltd.) and the like.

Next, the sugar coating of the present invention can be produced, for example, as follows using the above-mentioned raw materials.

First, after preparing various core materials according to a conventional method, a sugar coating layer is formed. That is, first, a raw material appropriately selected from the above-mentioned auxiliary raw materials is mixed with water to prepare a coating liquid. In particular, when the sugar alcohol is also contained in the coating liquid, it is preferable in that the sugar coating layer can be made sugar-free and a sugar coating layer having a more uniform thickness can be formed. Is preferably 10% or more in the coating solution. The sugar alcohols may be used alone or in combination of two or more. However, it is desirable to use only one kind in view of forming a sugar coating layer having a smoother and uniform thickness. In addition, the above-mentioned auxiliary materials may be used alone or in combination of two or more as necessary. Further, when dextrin, gum arabic, gelatin or the like is contained as a stabilizer, it is preferable in that the powdered sugar alcohol can be sufficiently bound to the core material and the strength of the sugar coating layer is improved.

Next, the core material is put into a sugar coating pot, and the coating liquid is applied to the core material to coat the core material while rotating the sugar coating pot at about 20 to 50 rpm. It is desirable that the amount of the coating liquid applied at one time is such that it covers the entire surface of the core material. The coating liquid may have the same composition or two or more different coating compositions may be laminated. However, the coating liquid having the same composition is used in that a sugar coating layer having a smoother and uniform thickness is formed. It is desirable to do. The temperature of the coating solution is preferably between 35 and 8
It is desired to be 0 ° C. In particular, it is preferable to set the temperature to 50 ° C. or lower when a raw material such as vitamins which is deteriorated by heating is contained.

After the coating solution has spread over the entire surface of the core material, a powdery sugar alcohol or a powdery component containing the powdery sugar alcohol and powdery auxiliary materials (hereinafter referred to as “powder component”) is sprinkled. The powdered sugar alcohols may be used alone or in combination of two or more. However, it is preferable to use only one kind in view of forming a sugar coating layer having a smoother and uniform thickness. In the case of the powder component, the powdered sugar alcohol may be used alone or in combination with a plurality of powdered auxiliary materials. At this time, the powdered sugar alcohol in the powdered component may be set to 80% or more to achieve a smoother. From the viewpoint that a sugar coating layer having a uniform thickness is formed. The amount of the powdered sugar alcohol or the powder component sprinkled is desirably such that the surface of the core material is uniformly covered, and may be appropriately set according to the size and shape of the core material.

In the present invention, it is important to use, as the powdered sugar alcohol used for the first sugar coating layer, a coarse sugar having 60 mesh-on powder of 60% or more. Preferably, a powder of 20 mesh to 60 mesh on powder is 50% or more. In addition, a powdered sugar alcohol having a fineness of more than 40% with a powder of 60 mesh pass may be granulated in advance and used as a granulated product having a particle size within the above range. You may. When the powdered sugar alcohol becomes fine particles smaller than the above range (the powder of 60 mesh pass exceeds 40%), the powdered sugar alcohol flows on the coating solution having a high moisture to agglomerate and clump, and the surface of the sugar coating layer In addition, a large number of irregularities and wrinkles are generated to make the thickness non-uniform, and in addition, a crack occurs in a thin portion, so that a good sugar coating layer cannot be formed. Also, when mixing the powdery auxiliary material, the particle size of the powdery auxiliary material,
It is desirable to make the particle size of the powdered sugar alcohol uniform so that a sugar coating layer having a smoother and more uniform thickness is formed.

Next, when the powdered sugar alcohol is coated on the entire surface, for example, at a temperature of 5 to 40 ° C. and a wind speed of 3 to 8
Air is blown at about m / sec and dried. By repeating the above series of sugar coating operations about once to about 10 times, a sugar coating layer having a uniform thickness can be formed on the core material. The number of sugar coating operations may be set arbitrarily according to the size and shape of the core material. When the thickness of the sugar-coating layer is preferably about 0.6 to 1.0 mm, it is suitable in terms of the strength and texture of the sugar-coating layer.

Next , a first sugar coating layer in contact with the core material
And by further coated with a second coating layer, Ru trimmed surface of the coating layer in a smoother state. In the same manner as in the first sugar coating layer, it is desirable to sprinkle the powdered sugar alcohol or the powder component on the second sugar coating layer in the same manner as in the first sugar coating layer in order to smooth the surface of the sugar coating layer. if necessary, the powder auxiliary material only may be sprinkled alone or more in combination of, collectively three powders for sprinkling these referred to as a "powdery substance". After the above steps, the drying operation is repeated once to several times in the same manner as in the first sugar coating layer to form a second sugar coating layer. The powdery substance used for the second sugar coating layer has a particle size smaller than that of the powdered sugar alcohol used for the first sugar coating layer, that is, a fine-grained powder in which 60 mesh pass powder exceeds 40%. Use
You. More preferably, it is desirable to use a fine-grained powder in which the powder of the 60-mesh pass exceeds 50%. As a result, fine irregularities caused by gaps between the coarse powdery sugar alcohols in the first sugar coating layer can be smoothed by filling the fine powdery material. Conversely, when the particle size of the powdery substance of the second sugar coating layer is larger than the above range, the first
Of difficult enough to fill the fine unevenness of the surface of the sugar-coating layer, the difficulty becomes smooth the surface of the sugar-coated layer Kunar.

In the step of forming the second sugar coating layer, powdery substances having the same particle size may be used at all times during the sugar coating operation being repeated several times. It is preferable that the layers are sequentially laminated instead of the powdery ones, because the surface of the sugar coating layer becomes finer and smoother. Also, the second
The thickness of the sugar coating layer may be arbitrarily set according to the size and shape of the core material. Further, the kind of powdery sugar alcohol and the composition of the powdery material of the auxiliary material used for the first sugar coating layer and the second sugar coating layer may be the same or different, but the sugar coating layer having a smoother and uniform thickness. It is desirable to have the same composition from the viewpoint of forming.

Further, if necessary, the surface of the finally obtained sugar coating layer may be coated with a coating solution to make it smoother, a colorant solution may be applied to color, or various powders such as cocoa fine powder may be used. By adding food ingredients to change the flavor,
A glossing agent (eg, beeswax, carnauba wax, shellac, wax, etc.) may be applied to impart gloss.

[0023]

According to the present invention, the sugar-coated material of the present invention has the first
As the powdered sugar alcohol contained in the sugar coating layer, a coarse sugar in a specific range is used , and the first sugar coating layer further covering the first sugar coating layer is used .
As a powdery substance contained in the sugar coating layer of No. 2, fine particles in a specific range
Since the powdered sugar alcohol does not flow and agglomerate on the coating solution during the formation of the sugar coating layer , it is evenly dispersed and bound on the surface of the sugar coating layer, so irregularities, wrinkles, cracks no, it is possible to form a coating layer of uniform thickness with smooth, it is possible to obtain a good appearance glycocalyx material. Also, this sugar coating layer is formed uniformly with moderate strength by coarse powdered sugar alcohol, and because there is no thin and fragile part, even if it hits the pot wall during rotation in the sugar coating pot, it is chipped,
Does not break. In addition, since the coarse-grained powdered sugar alcohol is used, the sugar coating layer can be formed to a desired thickness with a smaller number of operations, and the sugar coating process can be shortened to improve the production efficiency. Furthermore, the sugar-coated material of the present invention has various sizes and shapes, for example, when a large-sized core material or a core material having a complicated shape with many corners is used, a sugar-coated layer having a good appearance can be formed. Core material can be used,
There can be a wide variety of forms of sugar coating. In addition, since it is possible to use only sugar alcohol as a sweetness source for all of the core material and the sugar coating layer, it is possible to provide sugar-free, sugar-free, anti-caries, low-calorie and other healthy sugar coatings.

Next, a specific description will be given based on embodiments of the present invention. <Example 1> As a core material, a vertical length of 20 mm having a composition shown in Table 1 was used.
A chocolate molded product having a rectangular parallelepiped with a width of 20 mm and a height of 10 mm and curved corners is prepared, 600 g of the chocolate molded product is put into a sugar coating pot (a stainless steel bare revolving pan), and the sugar coating pot is rotated at 20 rpm. 6 g of the coating solution having the composition shown in FIG. 2 was sprayed, and then 20 g of coarse-grained powdered maltitol containing 60 mesh-on powder in the ratio shown in Table 3.
Was applied to the surface of the core material and then dried by blowing air at 20 ° C. as one process, and this operation was repeated eight times to form a first sugar coating layer. Further, the same operation as described above was carried out using a fine-grained powdered maltitol containing 60 mesh pass powder in the ratio shown in Table 2, and the operation in one process was repeated 5 times.
By repeating twice, a second sugar coating layer was formed, and a sugar coating was obtained. The thickness of the entire sugar coating layer was 0.6 mm.

Comparative Example 1 Coating was performed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the operation was repeated using powdered maltitol having the particle size shown in Table 3 until the thickness of the coating layer became equal to that of Example 1. I got something.

Comparative Example 2 A first sugar coating layer was formed using powdered maltitol having a particle size shown in Table 3 in the same manner and number of times as in the example.
The operation was repeated until the thickness of the sugar-coating layer became equal to that of Example 1 by changing the powdered maltitol to the particle size shown in the second sugar-coating layer column to obtain a sugar-coated product.

<Comparative Example 3 > A sugar coating was performed in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the operation was repeated using powdered maltitol having the particle size shown in Table 3 until the thickness of the sugar coating layer became equal to that of Example 1. I got something.

With respect to the sugar coatings of Examples and Comparative Examples, the total number of sugar coating operations until the sugar coating layer reached a certain thickness (0.6 mm) was measured, and further stored at 22 ° C. for 3 days. (The uniformity of thickness, presence of wrinkles and cracks) was evaluated. The results are shown in Table 3.

[0029]

[Table 1]

[0030]

[Table 2]

[0031]

[Table 3]

[0032] From Table 3, sugar-coating of Example 1 are subjected to smooth sugar coating in one uniform, it was possible to obtain a good appearance glycocalyx material. In addition, manufacturing efficiency was good as compared with the comparative example. Moreover, in Example 1, the surface of the sugar-coating layer was smoother, finer, and good. In contrast, the sugars of Comparative Examples 1 and 2
The clothing is of uniform thickness, but the grain of the surface is slightly rough
Was. In addition, since the sugar-coated material of Comparative Example 3 used only fine-grained powdered maltitol throughout the sugar-coating process, the thickness of the sugar-coated layer was uneven, many wrinkles, irregularities, and cracks occurred, and the appearance was very poor. Was. Also, the manufacturing efficiency was poor.

<Examples 2 to 8 > A sugar-coated product was obtained in the same manner as in the Example, except that the types of sugar alcohols were changed to those shown in Tables 4 and 5, and then the thickness of the sugar-coated layer was determined. The uniformity and the presence or absence of wrinkles, irregularities, and cracks were evaluated. The results are shown in Table 5.

[0034]

[Table 4]

[0035]

[Table 5]

According to Table 5, the sugar coatings of Examples 2 to 7 were coated with a substantially uniform and smooth sugar coating. The sugar coating of Example 8 is
Since a plurality of sugar alcohols were used in combination, the coating liquid was difficult to dry uniformly, and the powdery sugar alcohols slightly flowed and agglomerated, and unevenness and wrinkles occurred to a degree that was slightly noticeable. Although not shown in Table 5, in particular, Example 6 used reduced palatinose, so that the texture was also characteristic, and the sugar coating layer had a crunchy and favorable texture.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sugar-coated product obtained by the core material coated with a coating layer, and Aise' the core, 60 mesh-on powder 60
A first containing a powdered sugar alcohol that is at least
60 mesh for coating the sugar coating layer and the first sugar coating layer
The pass powder contains more than 40% by weight of powder.
A sugar coating, comprising: a sugar coating layer of No. 2 ;