Abstract: Proteinaceous elements are produced by adding discrete portions, particularly drops of a coagulable protein solution, to a coagulating medium under conditions such that the material added is drawn out to form a product with a greatly increased surface area.

Abstract: Exploration method and apparatus in which atmospheric particulates are collected, and wherein micro-organisms present in the collected particulates are analyzed for pre-determined elements or compounds.

Abstract: An improvement in process for producing encapsulated condiment particles by spray drying wherein a special surface-coating step is done while subjecting such particles to spray drying.

Abstract: Enhancement of the flavor of foodstuffs is achieved by the addition of an effective flavor-modifying amount of a pyrrole sulfur compound of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R is methyl, ethyl, furfuryl or acetyl.

Abstract: A soy cheese spread having excellent spreadability, oral melting and flavor characteristics is made by admixing a soy cheese, prepared by fermenting soy milk with a lactic acid-forming cheese starter culture to form a curd, with an edible oil or fat, a cheese emulsifying melting salt, and water and then vigorously agitating this mixture at an elevated temperature to liquefy and homogeneously emulsify the ingredients thereof and thereby form a product having a paste-like consistency.

Abstract: 3-Furyl .beta.-chalcogenalkyl sulfides having the structure: ##SPC1##Wherein X is a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each selected from the group consisting of methyl and hydrogen, at least one of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 being methyl; and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, taken separately, are each methyl, or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 taken together are tetramethylene, and when R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 taken together are tetramethylene X and S are in a trans relationship, are indicated to be useful in altering, modifying or enhancing the taste and/or aroma of foodstuffs.

Abstract: An improved process for tanning edible collagen food casings wherein the coagulated and washed collagen casing is exposed to a tanning bath which is free of aluminum chelating reagents and contains a mixture of aluminum ammonium sulfate, as A1NH.sub.4 (SO.sub.4).sub.2. 12H.sub.2 O and monobasic aluminum sulfate (A10HSO.sub.4), the concentration of the aluminum ammonium sulfate in the bath being less than 3% by weight and the molar ratio of aluminum ammonium sulfate to monobasic aluminum sulfate being in the range of 1:2 to 2:1.

Abstract: The enhancement of foodstuffs is effected by the addition of a small but effective flavor-modifying amount of a compound from the group of compounds having the general formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R is sec-butyl, prop-1-en-1 yl or 2-methyl-prop-1-en-1-yl; and ##SPC2##Wherein R is a lower alkyl alkyl group having between two and six carbon atoms or a butenyl group; and ##SPC3##Wherein R is a lower alkyl group and n is 0 or 2.

Abstract: Enhancement of the flavor of foodstuffs is achieved by the addition of an effective flavor-modifying amount of a thiophene sulfur compound of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R is hydrogen, methyl, acetyl or thenyl and n is 1 or 2; and ##EQU2## wherein R is methyl, ethyl or furfuryl.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method to precipitate and preserve protein from the juice expressed from green leafy plants by coagulating the protein in the juice through an anaerobic fermentation process utilizing the microorganisms naturally resident on the leaves of the green plants. In addition part of the carbohydrates and non-protein nitrogen in the juice is converted into bacterial protein which increases the amount of protein obtained from the juice and particularly prevents oxidative destruction of cystine and methionine and thereby increases these limiting amino acids in the obtained protein.

Abstract: A group of novel dihydrochalcone compounds represented by the formula ##SPC1##Wherein R is a lower alkyl or from one to three carbon atoms inclusive, n is an integer of from one to three inclusive and M is a physiologically acceptable metal cation, are disclosed. These materials are useful as dietetic sweeteners.

Abstract: A low calorie, low-hygroscopic, quick-dissolving sweetening composition is obtained by co-drying a solution of a dipeptide sweetening agent with polyglucose.

Abstract: Enhancement of the flavor of foodstuffs is achieved by the addition of an effective flavor-modifying amount of an aromatic sulfur compound of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, alkoxy or alkyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or alkyl; ##SPC2##Wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, alkyl or alkoxy, R.sub.2 is hydrogen or alkyl, R.sub.3 is alkyl or benzyl and n is 0, 1, Or 2; and ##SPC3##Wherein R is alkyl or phenyl.

Abstract: A process for treating soya to improve the nutritional value thereof by destroying or eliminating the trypsin inhibitor activity of the soya. The process comprises mixing soya with whey, adjusting the pH of the mixture so that it is at a pH other than the natural pH of the soya and heating the mixture.

Abstract: There is described a process and apparatus for treating oleaginous seed materials, such as soybean flakes with an extraction solvent, which includes an extraction zone, a desolventizing zone, and a miscella treating zone. In the extraction zone, the oleaginous seed material is subjected to concurrent contact with a carbohydrate-selective extraction solvent in a plurality of extraction vessels arranged in countercurrent fluid relationship therebetween with the expression of treated solids being effected after each extraction. The expressed solids from the last extracting vessel are passed to a desolventizing zone wherein residual solvent is vaporized by the respective indirect and direct contact with a heat transfer medium, such as steam, to produce a protein concentrate having a concentration (moisture free basis) of proteinaceous matter of at least about 70% by weight (6.25 times the total nitrogen content by the Kjeldahl method).

Abstract: A slurry-forming substantial level of discretely-sized hydrated L-aspartic acid sweetening compound, preferably one milled to reduce the particle size of undissolved ester crystals, is encapsulated in a dextrinous water soluble agent by drying a uniform dispersion as by spray drying to yield a high density readily soluble powderous sweetening composition which is readily blendable and uniform in sweetening power and resists caking.

Abstract: The enhancement of foodstuffs is effected by the addition of a small but effective flavor-modifying amount of a compound having the general formula ##SPC1##Wherein R is hydrogen or methyl or ethyl and at least one R is methyl or ethyl.

Abstract: Cellular protein products are recovered from microbiologically produced masses by incorporation therewith of a protein suitable as a food which acts as a flocculant.

Abstract: APM is discretely dispersed throughout a matrix created by melting a fuseable mass and subdividing it to encapsulate the APM therein.

Abstract: L-aspartic acid derivative sweetening compounds are admixed in aqueous suspension with hydrolyzed amylaceous derivatives comprising predominantly oligosaccharides solids having a low dextrose equivalency and applied as a coating solution to a cereal-base comestible whereby localized "hot-spots" are ameliorated and the product has a smooth sweetness, the derivative being uniformly distributed throughout the coating and a portion thereof being present as undissolved crystals.