Center filled confections, such as gummy or jelly candies or fruit snacks are continuously produced by co-deposition into a mold without candy tailing to obtain products with substantially uniform side walls and little, if any, shell breakage and filler leakage or bleed-out problems. Decentering of the filler and its accompanying production of thin or weak shell walls is avoided by at least substantially preventing excessive flow of a fluid or liquid shell component along a single side of shell ...

A chewing gum employing total invert sugar or medium invert sugar or a mixture thereof as a humectant. The chewing gum preferably comprises between about 0.1 to 5.0 percent by weight total invert sugar or between about 0.1 to 5.0 percent by weight medium invert sugar or between about 0.1 to 5.0 percent by weight of a mixture of total invert sugar and medium invert sugar. A method of manufacturing the chewing gum is also disclosed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a coated product with increased stiffness to reduce the chipping after manufacturing and several days of storage, and before wrapping. A coated product such as chewing gum, medicines and medicinal tablets, wherein the product is coated with a coating composition comprising hydrogenated indigestible starch syrup as a binding agent.