Abstract: A system and method of monitoring a person's health information is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a computer program algorithm accessible by a computer processing device and providing at least one monitor in electronic communication with the computer processing device wherein the monitor is configured to transmit the person's physical data to the computer processing device, and the algorithm is configured to store the physical data, average the physical data over one or more predetermined periods of time, and report the physical data in one or more predetermined formats. The computer processing device may be a cellular telephone, tablet computer, laptop computer, desktop computer, server, or networked computing device. The monitor may be any one of a pedometer, a heart rate monitor, a body temperature monitor, a blood glucose monitor, a blood pressure monitor, or a monitor configured to collect physical data from one or more of a person's body fluids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method or processing technique as well as the product achieved there from for the manufacturing of high protein, high fiber, low carbohydrate snacks, cereals, and food items in which the end product will demonstrate low bulk density and/or a light crunchy texture. The product may be made up of mixtures of various sources of proteins such as Milk protein, Whey protein, Soya protein, Meat protein mixed with various portions of grains and hydrocolloids and processed in such manner where the product, utilizing the incorporation of various gasses into the plasticizing agent and then distributed within the matrix under low or high pressure such as cooking extrusion or forming extruder for the purpose of expanding the matrix of the food when exiting the die and the pressure is released. During the baking process, such expansion takes place when the gas infused plasticizer is distributed within the dough and further expands within the dough as it is being baked.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the utilization of pre-cooked cereal tubular starch such as oat flour, corn flour, corn starch, rice flour, rice starch, potato starch, pre-gelled potato starch, Cassava starch, or tapioca starch in the making of high protein pretzels and snacks as well as food particles which posses a lower bulk density and lighter crunch in the finished products. Such a matrix combined with a gas infused plasticizing agent in the making of pretzels, high protein pretzels, and snacks will result in an even lighter texture in the finished product.

Abstract: Shaker delivered savory or sweet seasoning bits formed into various shapes and formats, made from a high protein stabilized crunchy matrix with savory or sweet flavoring and seasonings imbedded within its matrix and coated on the surface thereof.

Abstract: Shaker delivered savory or sweet seasoning bits formed into various shapes and formats, made from a high protein stabilized crunchy matrix with savory or sweet flavoring and seasonings imbedded within its matrix and coated on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A reduced-flatulence, legume-based snack food including legumes, additional grain-based ingredients, an aqueous solvent, and processing aids. The legumes have greater than 45 percent by weight of the oligosaccharides and saccharides removed therefrom. The legumes, additional grain-based ingredients, aqueous solvent, and processing aids are processed together to provide the snack food with a developed matrix so that the snack food exhibits a high crunch texture and a low fat absorption when cooked.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns affixing various seeds, such as grass seeds, to surfaces or cavities of specially manufactured fertilizer carriers formed into various shapes, e.g. star crosssections, tri-lobe or multi-lobe profiles, or cup-like or similar cavity-containing shapes. This shape and the manner of manufacturing of the fertilizer provides grooves and cavities or areas to which the seed can be affixed to the fertilizer and protected against damage during shipping and handling. The fertilizer carrier also acts as a nutrient source for the seed while the seed is most vulnerable, i.e. during its emergence from the seed coat and the first few days after emergence.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns affixing various seeds, such as grass seeds, to surfaces or cavities of specially manufactured fertilizer carriers formed into various shapes, e.g. star cross-sections, tri-lobe or multi-lobe profiles, or cup-like or similar cavity-containing shapes. This shape and the manner of manufacturing of the fertilizer provides grooves and cavities or areas to which the seed can be affixed to the fertilizer and protected against damage during shipping and handling. The fertilizer carrier also acts as a nutrient source for the seed while the seed is most vulnerable, i.e. during its emergence from the seed coat and the first few days after emergence. In an alternative construction, a carrier matrix formed of an organic polymer or proteinaceous compound is coated with seeds or other edible fragments to provide a food for birds.

Abstract: A method for producing a dough product from starch containing ingredients of cellular structure, to obtain a product containing at least 50 percent starch material. This method comprises extruding the ingredients by passing them through an extruder of a predetermined inner barrel diameter. Within this barrel, an extruder rotor of predetermined outer diameter is accommodated to exert a mixing, kneading and heating effect onto the ingredients and to form a substantially homogeneous mass. This mass is then discharged and distributed from the extruder under predetermined pressure into a straight heated tube of an inner cross-section larger than the outer diameter of the screw(s). In this way, a plug flow of the mass through the heated tube is established to cook the mass at a predetermined temperature and for a predetermined period. Finally, the mass is formed at the end of the tube into a desired shape, but maintains mostly its cellular structure at least in part.

Abstract: Breakfast cereal products coated with a cold-water-soluble coating made from milk solids or high protein, vitamins, and mineral supplement powders adhering to the surface of the cereal via an adhesive or conditions making the surface of the cereal adherent are described. The cereal itself may contain in its basic recipe milk solids, fibers, sugars, fats and carbohydrates, various proteins and minerals, thus classifying the basic cereal formula as a high energy and/or high protein and/or high fiber cereal product, which may be fortified with other essential minerals and vitamins used commonly as dietary supplements. This product is processed in a manner so that a coating is applied composed of such products which remain soluble in cold water at the time of consumption, even after drying and eliminates the need for liquid milk requiring only tap water to generate a similar taste, color, and texture, as well as mouth sensation, at the time of consumption of the cereal.

Abstract: A process for producing reduced-flatulence, legume-based snack foods. The process includes mixing legumes with an aqueous solvent and processing aids to form a legume solution. The legumes are in the legume solution are then allowed to hydrate. An aqueous solution oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, or combinations thereof is them extracted from the legume solution. The legume solution is mixed with a cereal flour to form a dough mixture. The dough mixture is then cooked and shaped.

Abstract: A formulation and process to produce a pet food or treat that has been reshaped to various sizes and shapes such as strips, pellets, sheets, etc., from the addition of a number of raw ingredients which were mixed and heated and fused together to form a continuous matrix which remains flexible and non-brittle at low moistures of 20-40%, water activity of 0.30-0.65, and having a low glass transition compound as the major adhesive component of the matrix, thus being stable at minimum or no packaging atmosphere at room temperature is herein described. The process is carried out in a twin-screw, self-wiping, corotating and intermeshing extruder.

Abstract: A substantially odorless and sterilized fertilizer in pellet form is produced by combining a dry organic waste material and a dry binder material, then combining the resulting dry mixture with steam, water and/or further organic waste in the form of sludge. The resulting material is provided to an extruder for a more thorough, dispersive mixing, a pressure increase to at least 100 psi, and heating above the glass transition temperature of the binder, and more preferably to at least about 125.degree. C. to substantially sterilize the material mass. The extruded material is forced through a die and released to an ambient environment, rapidly reducing pressure of the material and thereby lysing spores and microorganisms surviving conditions within the extruder. The emerging material is segmented and dried, or segmented and tumbled to form pellets, then dried.

Abstract: Described is a process for manufacturing syrup-infused proteinaceous and farinaceous food products by adding syrups heated to various temperatures to extruded food compositions where the extrudate exits the die under pressure, expands and releases moisture upon expansion, thus cooling and setting the structural matrix of the food while replacing the moisture partially or fully with the syrup.

Abstract: A food product for animal consumption is prepared from an animal by-product, preferably a complete avian carcass. A heated hydrolyzing agent is applied by spray or dip coating to the carcass exterior. After initiation of hydrolysis, the carcass is ground, enhanced by additives, then steam heated to a temperature of about 200 degrees F. The heated by-product is provided as a slurry or as dry particulates to a twin screw extruder. As it is transported across several zones of the extruder, the by-product is thoroughly dispersively mixed and subjected to high pressures and temperatures, vented to release moisture, neutralized with a neutralizing agent, and blended under high temperatures and pressures sufficient to completely sterilize what has become a highly uniform and homogeneous by-product mass. The by-product mass is extruded and cut into pellets, which then are dried to a moisture content at or below 10 percent.

Abstract: A process for enrichment of animal food with fat is described wherein air cell bubbles are introduced to a highly dense product in the extrusion system by the utilization of carbonation technology into the oils and fats with various functional and textural properties. It includes the use of low to highly charged oils and fats with various gases under pressure injected into the extrusion stream within the extruder under lower pressure to assist in the expansion of the extrudate once it leaves the die nozzle.

Abstract: A process for adding fat to an extruded pet food composition using an under oil cutting process wherein the extrudate is simultaneously cut, infused with oil and dried to form food pellets.