Patented Dec. 10, 1940 2,224,637

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,224,637 CHOCOLATE-FLAVORED.CHEWING GUM Louisto FrankWilliam H. Mahle, Fleer MelroseCorporation, Park, Philadelphia,Pa., assignor Pa., a corporation of Delaware NoDrawing. Application December 28, 1939, Seria No. 34.9 8 Claims. (C. 99-135) This invention relates to chewing gum and it The present invention also includes special comprises a chocolate-flavored chewing gum (ways of incorporating the defatted cocoa in the containing defatted cocoa powder as a flavor chewing gum base material. I have discovered ing constituent, it further comprises a chewing thatchewing the bestgum way is by of makingmixing a chocolate-flavoredprepared chewing 5 gum product made by intimately mixing a chew gum, which can be flavored or not as desired, ing gun with a chocolate-flavored candy where with a chocolate-flavored candy mixture, the by the entire mixture is rendered homogeneous, two prepared mixtures being pulled on a hook the chocolate-flavored candy containing defatted or pulling machine until they are thoroughly COCOa, as a flavoring constituent. admixed together and rendered homogeneous. 10 0. Hereto there has been no satisfactory way . I am aware that others have prepared chew available for the manufacture of a chocolate able confections by amalgamating paraffin while flavored chewing gum. Others have tried to molten with a premade candy as in the patent to incorporate chocolate or cocoa of the usual kind Aubin 280,115, but the present invention distin in chewing gum without, however, obtaining a guishes from that patent in that separate batches 5 commercially satisfactory product. In some in of plastic chewing gum and candy are mixed in stances chewing gum has been coated with choc substantial proportions and pulled on a hook. I olate candy, but this does not give a product in do not first melt the chewing gum and then ad which the chewing gum itself is actually flavored mix it with a premade candy. With chocolate. After the chocolate candy has More specifically, I first make up a chocolate been disselved the chewing gum remains but the flavored candy consisting of about 50 parts by flavor of the chocolate has been lost. weight of sugar, 20 parts by weight of a defatted Although others have added cocoa to chewing cocoa having a fat content of about 1%, 100 parts gun it is an observable fact that ordinary cocoa by weight of corn syrup or glucose, 20 parts by contributes undesirable properties to the chew weight of invert sugar and 10 parts by weight of ing gum. . Moreover, the flavor is quickly chewed powdered skim milk. These ingredients are out of the gum, and up to the present time there mixed together and cooked at about 245 F. in has been no satisfactory chocolate-flavored chew the usual way for making candy. A little vanilla ing gum on the market. - I have now discovered reasons why the addi flavoringAfter the can cooking be added operation if desired. the candy is poured to 30 tion of ordinary cocoa powder to chewing gum on a slab and after cooling, a slab of premade yields an unsatisfactory product, and have dis chewing gum is admixed with the candy and the covered ways of avoiding the disadvantages entire mixture pulled on a pulling machine until hitherto met with. The present invention is based homogeneous. Preferably, equal weights of candy upon the discovery that the reason why chewing and chewing gum are used. The chewing gun 35 gun containing ordinary cocoa is unsatisfactory can be made in any convenient way from the is because of the cocoa butter present in the usual constituents. I lay no claim to any special COCOa powder. Commercial cocoa powder con chewing gum base, but a suitable one can contain tains about 20% to 22% of cocoa butter. This 30 parts by weight of a gutta, such as gutta low melting fat, I have discovered, materially jelutong, 16 parts by Weight of a rosin ester gun, 40 changes the chewing characteristics of chewing preferably hydrogenated, 7 parts by weight of gum to which it is added making it very soft and rubber latex, 7 parts by weight of chalk, 22 parts sticky. Such cocoa powder is made from de by weight of candelilla wax and 16 parts by fibrinated cocoa beans by grinding and pressing weight of a para-coumarone resin. About 15 the beans for the removal of some of the fat parts of the base are mixed with 65 parts of S 45 or cocoa butter normally present. powdered sugar. and 20 parts of corn syrup to I have now discovered that when a defatted make the chewing gum, and this in turn is then cocoa is incorporated in chewing gun the dis mixed with the slab of chocolate-flavored candy. advantages hitherto observed with Ordinary There are countless variations in the formula cocoa are Overcome. By a "defatted cocoa' for the chewing base, as well as the final chew-0 mean a cocoa powder having a fat content of not ing gun. Chewing guns containing chicle can more than about 10% and frequently as low as 1%. A cocoa having a butter fat content of be used in place of that given above. Those about 1% is extremely satisfactory for imparting skilled in the art will understand that the chew a chocolate flavor to chewing gum, and I make ing gum can be prepared from any of the usual special claim to this feature. chewing gum bases and can be sweetened or 2 2,224,687 flavored as desired prior to incorporating with 2. Chewing gum containing a cocoa having a the chocolate candy. I wish to emphasize that fat Content of about 1%...... in the process I am now describing the chewing 3. The method of making a chocolate-flavored gum and the candy are pulled on a pulling ma chewing gum which comprises admixing a de chine until the entire mixture appears to be fatted cocoa powder having a fat content of not substantially homogeneous. more than about 10% with a chewing gum base. For best results it is desirable that the de 4. The process of making a chocolate-flavored fatted cocoa be made up into a candy and the chewing gum which comprises admixing a de candy then combined with the chewing gum. O fatted cocoa powder having a fat content of This gives a chocolate-flavored chewing gum about 1% with a chewing gum base. 10 having the best flavor, and the flavor remains in 5. The process of making a chocolate-flavored the gum even after a prolonged chewing. But a chewing gun which comprises admixing a pre fairly good chewing gum can be prepared by made chocolate-flavored candy and a premade adding defatted cocoa powder to the ordinary s chewing gum while both substances are plastic chewing gum base along with sugar, vanilla and until the mixture is substantially homogeneous 5 any other desired flavoring materials. throughout, the chocolate-flavored candy Con Wide variation can be made in the proportions taining a defatted cocoa powder having a fat con and constituents of the chocolate candy and I do tent of not more than about 10%. not wish to be limited to any special candy for 6. The process of making a chocolate-flavored mula. The candy, when somewhat cooled on the chewing gum which comprises admixing a pre 20 slab, should have the right consistency for en made chocolate-flavored candy and a premade abling it to be pulled along with the chewing gum, chewing gum while both substances are plastic but this characteristic will, of course, be obvious until the mixture is substantially homogeneous to those skilled in the art. throughout, the chocolate candy containing a de Defatted cocoa powders having a butter fat con fatted cocoa powder having a fat content of about 2 5 tent as low as 1% are available in the open market, %. and I make no claim to Ways of preparing Such a 7. A chocolate-flavored chewing gum composed cocoa powder. It is indeed surprising a cocoa, of a homogeneous mixture of a premade choco powder of such low fat content gives such marked late-flavored candy and a chewing gum, the improvement in the flavor characteristics and chocolate-flavored candy containing a defatted 30 chewing characteristics of the gum. Insofar as cocoa powder having a fat content of not more I am aware I am the first to have discovered that than about 10%. marked improvement is obtained when a defatted 8. A chocolate-flavored chewing gum composed Cocoa rather that the Ordinary cocoa having about of a homogeneous mixture of a premade choco 20% of fat is used. late-flavored candy and a chewing gum, the 35 Having thus described my invention, what I chocolate-flavored candy containing a defatted claim is: cocoa powder having about 1% of fat. 1. Chewing gum containing a cocoa powder having a fat content of not more than about 10%. LOUIS WILLIAM MAHL.E.