| abstract |
This invention relates to novel nonhygroscopic non-sugarbase and noncariogenic Vitamin C releasable base materials of suitable structural soundness for use in the preparation of and incorporation in suckable tablets, lozenges and chocolate, alone or in conjunction with suitable other desired additions such as flavoring-, medical-, antimicrobial-, sweetening-, coloring agents and the like, and including agents generally employed in the art of tablet, lozenge, and chocolate making, and vitamins, and specifically relates to compositions of the novel base material that may be formed by compounding suitably selected solid glycerides of the self-emulsifying type with calcium ascorbate dihydrate as a noncariogenic-Vitamin C or 1-ascorbic acid releasable constituent therein, alone or in admixture with dibasic magnesium phosphate capable of conferring upon products prepared with said base material, including tablets, lozenges, and chocolate, anti-cariogenic properties as well. The invention relates also to the use of those selected solid glycerides of the self-emulsifying type as being useful for compounding with calcium ascorbate dihydrate, alone or in conjunction with dibasic magnesium phosphate and other desired ingredients, which are derived from at least one of the group including edible fats; oils; and edible fat-forming fatty acids and the preferred forms of the glycerides selected for forming the base material of the invention as a constituent therein are glycerol stearate; glycerol palmitate and mixtures of glycerol stearates with glycerol palmitates which contain in their respective compositions each at least about thirty parts by weight percent mono-ester groups. |