| abstract |
A chewing gum candy confection product prepared by mixing a melted chewing gum base with a cooked hard candy sorbitol syrup at a temperature which renders the gum base and the cooked candy syrup miscible under mild blending conditions to form a substantially single phase continuous plastic chewing gum candy mass. The mass is mildly blended under controlled cooling so that substantially no air is introduced into the mixture. Additives such as flavoring, coloring and bio-effecting agents are optionally incorporated under continued mild blending conditions. Finally, the product is cooled to a hard candy matrix containing chewing gum therein, such matrix suitable for scoring and cutting and for grinding into a particulate and/or a powder. |