DC Sugar
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DC Sugar from British Sugar provides a simple and flexible way to produce consistent high quality tablets for the pharmaceutical and confectionery industries.
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What is DC Sugar?
DC Sugar is an agglomerated sugar produced from icing sugar (95%) and maltodextrin (5%) that is free flowing and directly compressible into tablets.
Confectionery and pharmaceutical tablets are generally manufactured using either a wet granulation product or a directly compressible material such as DC Sugar, DC lactose or DC sorbitol.
How DC Sugar can benefit you
- Production - process efficiency and simplicity
- Weight - uniform tablet weight and control of drug/flavour dosage
- Free-flowing - good flow properties
- Consistency - tablet consistency and quality
- Friability - low friability of tablets
- Flavour masking - sweetness of sugar enhances flavours and masks bitter notes
Formulation with DC Sugar requires no heat or moisture that could adversely affect sensitive ingredients.
DC Sugar is easy to use and flexible, making it ideal for JIT scheduling, short runs, and bespoke products. New product development need no longer involve lengthy clean down and downtime of plant.
Excipient properties
DC Sugar is the ideal excipient for pharmaceutical applications such as vitamin tablets, gastro-intestinal remedies and other OTC drugs.
Sweet taste
DC Sugar has the sweetness of sugar, which enhances flavours and can effectively mask bitter notes of other ingredients.
Compliance
British Sugar DC Sugar conforms to the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) monograph for compressible sugar.
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