Isomalt

Today, a lot of health conscious consumers improve their diets with traditional nutraceutical supplements. In the last years, probiotic supplements have been growing in importance also. They are live bacteria promoted with claims that they provide health benefits when consumed. To use probiotics in…
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Hydrophilic matrix tablets are a type of sustained release dosage form characterized by distributing a drug in a matrix that is usually polymeric. Tolcapone is a drug that inhibits the enzyme catechol-O-methyl transferase. In recent years, it has been shown that tolcapone is a potent inhibitor of…
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BENEO’S galenIQ makes sugar-free medicated high-boiled lozenges with long shelf-life When it comes to producing medicated hard-boiled lozenges, then galenIQ™ 900, the pharmaceutical excipient grade of BENEO’s isomalt, is the number one choice. BENEO’S new galenIQ™ 900 provides a broad range of…
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Isomalt is a polyol derived from sucrose. Advantages of this excipient are its sweet taste, which is supposed to allow taste masking, the low glycemic and insulinemic response (Petzoldt, 1982), and the ability to be compacted directly. With regard to infantile patients, also the lack of…
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20. June 2016 Abstract The possibility of producing amorphous isomalt and melibiose by spray drying was studied. The impact of process parameters on yield and solid-state stability was compared to sucrose and trehalose. All powders remained amorphous during 2–3 weeks. Processing was…
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