	US 7,544,379 B2
	Composite containing fine cellulose
Yasushi Kawamura, Yokohama (Japan); Yuka Itou, Asahi (Japan); Nobuyoshi Mochihara, Nobeoka (Japan); Yoshihito Yaginuma, Nobeoka (Japan); Kouichi Noda, Nobeoka (Japan); and Akihiro Sakamoto, Nobeoka (Japan)
Assigned to Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/479,035 PCT Filed May 29, 2002, PCT No. PCT/JP02/05235 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 26, 2003, PCT Pub. No. WO02/096213, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 05, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-162317 (JP), filed on May 30, 2001; and application No. 2001-338310 (JP), filed on Nov. 02, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2004/0137138 A1, Jul. 15, 2004
Int. Cl. A23L 1/05 (2006.01); A23L 1/0534 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 426—573 [426/658]

14 Claims

1. A cellulose-containing complex comprising 60 to 80 wt % of cellulose having 30 to 375 of an average polymerization degree, 2 to 12 wt % of locust bean gum, 0.5 to 8 wt % of xanthan gum and 0.5 to 37.5 wt % of a hydrophilic material(s) obtained by subjecting a mixture of 60 to 80 wt % of the cellulose, 2 to 12 wt % of the locust bean gum, 0.5 to 8 wt % of the xanthan gum and 0.5 to 37.5 wt % of the hydrophilic material(s) to wet co-grinding treatment in the presence of 20 to 60 wt % of water, and then drying to form a powder,

wherein said complex has a property (A) wherein when said complex has been dispersed in water at 8000 rpm for 5 minutes with a homomixer at 85° C., said complex forms particles having an average particle size of 60 μm or less, the proportion of particles with a particle size of 100 μm or more among the formed particles is 30 vol % or less based on the total volume of the formed particles, and

wherein said complex has a property (B) wherein when said complex has been dispersed in a 1% aqueous suspension at 25° C. and 15000 rpm for 2 minutes in a homogenizer, the dispersed complex has a colloid fraction of 30% or less.