Process for the preparation of foamed aromatization capsules and the capsules produced thereby

Claim 1

A process for producing foamed aromatization capsules capable of floating at the surface of an aqueous medium comprising the steps of: (a) mixing an aqueous essence containing aromatic constituents with a water-soluble powdered edible solid to form a core mixture; (b) foaming the core mixture by the injection of gas into said mixture to provide a foam; (c) adding the foamed mixture in the form of droplets to a wall material of water-soluble powdered edible solids while the said wall material is being agitated to cause a water flux from the foam droplets to the surrounding wall material and form coated particles, each such coated particle having a continuous layer of said wall material surrounding a foam droplet; (d) curing the coated particles by continuing agitation of the wall material until the surrounding layer of wall material about the coated particles forms a continuous, hardened shell surrounding a honeycombed structure core containing the aromatic constituents; and then (e) collecting the resulting capsules.