Abstract: The present invention relates to a brine injection system with a plurality of needles, which are inserted into a product and through which brine is injected into the product, wherein brine which does not end up in the product is collected and recycled and wherein during recycling, the brine flows through a filter.

Abstract: An air circulation and ventilation system for a retail store produce display comprises an air flow system that outputs an air flow to the produce display; a sensor system that determines a condition of the produce in the produce display; a sensor controller that controls the air flow system to change the air flow in the produce display in response to the condition of the produce in the produce display; and a self-contained power panel for powering the air flow system and the sensor system.

Abstract: There is provided an iron-fortified tea preparation comprising dried tea; and a mixture of a chelator and iron adhered to the dried tea, optionally with an adhesive, the molar ratio of chelator:iron in the mixture being about 2:1 or greater. The iron-fortified tea preparation may be used to brew tea, may be mixed with unfortified tea prior to brewing, and may also be used as an additive to food or beverage products.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for roasting a food product including: loading a batch of a predetermined food product type in a roasting device; setting operating parameters of the roasting device according to initial reference values for the predetermined food product type; performing feedback control during the heating of the product by obtaining, instant by instant, a value for a sound quantity which is relative to a sound emitted by the product, the sound being detected in a frequency range including both human ear audible and ultrasound frequencies; comparing the sound quantity's value obtained at each instant to a value taken by the sound quantity at such instant in a roasting curve of sound quantity versus time associated with the predetermined food product type; and adjusting, instant by instant, the operating parameters of the roasting device depending on the result of the comparison.

Abstract: Disclosed is a chocolate spread or chocolate filling composition comprising one or more of the ingredients selected from hazelnut paste, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, cocoa powder, milk fat, milk powder, vanilla, and lecithin; 2% to 40% by weight of a fat composition; and 30% to 50% by weight of sugar, wherein the fat composition comprises at least 40% by weight of interesterified shea olein having an oleic acid content of at least 50% by weight and a stearic acid content of at least 25% by weight, based on the total C12 to C20 fatty acids present in the interesterified shea olein, and wherein the interesterified shea olein has a solid fat content of at least 10% at 10° C., at least 6% at 20° C., and at least 3% at 30° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to the fields of medicines, chemistry, and food products, and specifically relates to a rolling mold combination device, a method using a rolling mold to prepare a freeze-dried excipient, and a product thereof. The method has the advantage of being able to engrave any character or pattern at any part of a mold, and correspondingly, can produce the character or pattern at any part of a manufactured product, including a product name or trademark, and such an effect cannot be obtained in existing freeze-dried excipient products. The manufactured product can be designed to be any shape and does not readily break inside packaging, reducing loss of medicines and enabling accurate dosages thereof. The method of preparing a freeze-dried excipient adopts mold-release freeze-drying, and a mold does not re-enter a freeze-drying step, improving production efficiency, decreasing production cost, saving energy and protecting the environment.

Abstract: Chewing gum base which include polymer material, such as polyvinyl acetate, and at least one miscible plasticizer are provided. The base can also include at least one emulsifier. The present application provides for methods of making gum bases and chewing gum formulations.

Abstract: Chewing gums containing allulose and methods of making such gums are disclosed. In one embodiment, the gum comprises about 5% to about 95% gum base, about 0.1% to about 10% flavoring agent and allulose, the allulose being part or all of the bulk sweetener in the gum. The allulose provides the gum with unique properties; the gum is low in calories and may be non-cariogenic. In other embodiments, the allulose is co-dried with other sweeteners or co-evaporated with other sweeteners or with a plasticizing syrup to produce unique sweetening ingredients and syrups for gum.

Abstract: A chewing gum includes a xylitol coating applied as multiple layers of a coating syrup. The coating syrup contains a xylitol solution that is the product of xylose hydrogenation and includes impurities such as other sugars or sugar alcohols which are the natural byproducts of xylitol production process. The xylitol coating applied in this manner provides cost and energy savings as compared to prior art xylitol coated chewing gums.

Abstract: A machine for making liquid or semi-liquid products, including a first container adapted to contain a basic mixture, having an inside surface and an outside surface and equipped with a stirrer disposed inside the first container; a thermodynamic system comprising a circuit for circulating a heat exchanger fluid and a first heat exchanger associated, in use, with walls of the first container, the first heat exchanger is defined by at least one element which is fixable, in use, to the outside surface of the first container, having an open cavity, extending uninterruptedly and defining, when coupled with the outside surface, a channel for circulating heat exchanger fluid, the element also having at least one inlet and one outlet for the heat exchanger fluid.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a textured food product comprising the steps of preparing a slurry comprising dry matter and water, wherein the dry matter comprises 1. at least 35% by weight legume protein, 2. 10% to 45% by weight oat bran, whole grain oat flour or a mixture thereof, and 3. 2% t 35% by weight of the dry matter of oat protein, of which 2. and 3. must always add up to no more than 65% by weight. The slurry further comprises water 20%-80% by weight of the weight of the dry matter. The method further includes cooking the slurry in an extruder cooker and extruding the cooked slurry to form the textured food product.

Abstract: An animal feed supplement that includes dry Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, dry Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, dry Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Product, dry Lactobacillus casei Fermentation Product, dry Lactobacillus plantarum Fermentation Product, dry Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, dry Bifidobacterium bifidum Fermentation Product, dry Pediococcus acidilactici Fermentation Product, dry Pediococcus pentosaceus Fermentation Product; and dry Lactobacillus lactis Fermentation Product.

Abstract: A food composition for managing non-food allergies in companion animals is disclosed, along with a method of managing non-food allergies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a feed composition for an animal comprising tea tree oil, wherein the tea tree oil is present in an amount sufficient to reduce bacterial infection in the animal upon ingestion of the feed composition, and to methods for preparing such a composition.

Abstract: The present application discloses a composition of a butyrate or a derivative thereof and benzoic acid, preparation method and use as a feedstuff additive thereof, wherein the composition comprises 5 wt % to 50 wt % of the butyrate or the derivative of butyric acid, and 50 wt % to 95 wt % of the benzoic acid or benzoate. The benzoate and butyrate dissociate into acidic molecules when they enter into animals' bodies. The butyric acid stimulates parietal cells to grown and the parietal cells produce hydrochloric acid, which thereby reduces the pH value in the stomach. Benzoic acid can inhibit facultative anaerobes such as Lactobacillus and butyric acid-producing anaerobic bacteria in the stomach, rendering the two floras become predominant microflora, and therefore produce more endogenous organic acids such as lactic acid and butyric acid. These acids are beneficial to gastrointestinal health and animal growth. As a result, a synergy effect of the two components in the composition is achieved.

Abstract: A feed composition is prepared by a method comprising mixing an amino acid such as methionine or lysine; a fatty acid metal salt such as calcium oleate, calcium myristate, calcium palmitate, calcium stearate, or calcium linoleate; a fatty acid such as lauric acid, stearic acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, or linoleic acid; and a sorbitan fatty acid ester such as sorbitan trioleate, and shaping the resulting mixture, wherein the sorbitan fatty acid ester has an HLB of not more than 3.

Abstract: A pet chew includes a primarily plant material base and a meat pulp material including a starch and stuck to an outside surface of the base. A method for manufacturing the pet chew is also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a beverage with flavorful acidic citrus fruit-like qualities, which makes one perceive a sensation of fruit freshness and a characteristic flavor of flavorful acidic citrus fruits. In the flavorful acidic citrus fruit juice-containing beverage having a fruit juice content of not less than 1% and not more than 30%, the ratio of the amount of naringin to the total amount of naringin, hesperidin, eriocitrin, narirutin, neohesperidin, and rutin is adjusted to be in the range of 0.10 to 0.50.

Abstract: Provided is an easy-to-drink beverage that makes one perceive a characteristic flavor of flavorful acidic citrus fruits and in which an acid taste unique to flavorful acidic citrus fruit juice is moderately reduced. In the flavorful acidic citrus fruit juice-containing beverage having a fruit juice content of not less than 1% and not more than 30%, the ratio of the amount of narirutin to the total amount of naringin, hesperidin, eriocitrin, narirutin, neohesperidin, and rutin is adjusted to be in the range of 0.06 to 0.14.

Abstract: A fiber extracted from a fruit or vegetable byproduct is provided, the extracted fiber having a molecular weight of between about 5000 grams/mol (g/mol) and about 8000 g/mol, or a pectic oligosaccharide having a molecular weight of between about 300 g/mol and 2500 g/mol. The fiber may be extracted using physical methods or a combination of a physical method to break the fruit or vegetable byproduct cell walls and enzymatic hydrolysis. Also, a comestible containing the extracted fiber is provided. A method for producing a soluble fiber is further provided including reducing the particle size of a fruit or vegetable byproduct, subjecting the byproduct particles to a physical process to break cell walls of the particles, adding one or more enzymes, mixing or agitating the particles, and filtering the byproduct particles to provide a retentate and a permeate. The permeate contains the soluble fiber, which is optionally a prebiotic fiber.

Abstract: A method of producing retort-sterilized cooked rice including: a heating water-absorption step A for heating uncooked rice having a hardness ratio lower than 1 (one) for causing water to be absorbed therein such that resultant water-absorbed rice grains weigh from 2.0 to 2.6 times as much as the uncooked rice grains; a filling step B for filling the heated, water-absorbed rice grains in a packing container; a sealing step D for sealing the filled packing container; and a retort-sterilization step E for sterilizing the sealed packing container by heating and pressurizing. Also, retort-sterilized container-packed cooked rice comprises rice prepared by retort-sterilizing Indica rice with charging of inert gas in a headspace of the packing container such that the concentration of oxygen gas therein may range 1% or more and less than 2%.

Abstract: Product such as food is chilled or frozen in apparatus in which a chilling zone holds a pool of cryogen vapor, and a belt that carries the product through the apparatus passes through a region in the apparatus that is lower than the upper surface of the pool of cryogen vapor.

Abstract: A system and method for displaying items such as food allowing for an unobstructed view of the food item is disclosed. The system includes a backer card and a transparent film. The food item is stored in the transparent film allowing an unobstructed view of the food item. An upper portion of the transparent film is secured to the backer card leaving a portion of the transparent film below the point of attachment unsecured allowing the food item to move away from the backer card. Information pertaining to the food item is printed on the backer card leaving the view of the food item unobstructed.

Abstract: Provided is a brine solution comprising (a) water (b) salts comprising (i) sodium chloride and (ii) one or more phosphate salts, (c) one or more methyl cellulose, one or more hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, or a mixture thereof, and (d) one or more carboxymethyl cellulose, wherein (b) is present in an amount of 3% to 20% by weight based on the weight of the brine solution, wherein (c) and (d) are present in amounts such that the amount of (c) plus the amount of (d) is 0.2% to 5% based on the weight of the brine solution, wherein the amount of (d) is 15% to 30% by weight based on the sum of the weights of (c) and (d). Also provided is a method for treating meat comprising bringing said meat into contact with such a brine solution.

Abstract: A process for producing an infused honey composition having a moisture content of 15% to 19% w/w is described. The process generally includes adding an infusing agent to honey to form an infused honey composition. The honey may be dried prior to addition of the infusing agent, after addition of the infusing agent, or both before and after addition of the infusing agent. The infusing agents are generally not-from-concentrate components of a plant including an extract or juice, fruit, seeds, skin, stems, roots, or leaves.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions including medium chain triglycerides (MCT), methods for the preparation therefore, and methods for the use thereof. Compositions may include, for example, MCT, green coffee bean extract, and Irvingia extract. Compositions described herein may be for use in, for example, weight management in a subject in need thereof. Compositions may, in certain examples, be provided as a powder mix, which may be for use as a creamer or additive for mixing with variety of beverages and/or foods.

Abstract: A nutritional supplement powder and method of supplementing the nutritional value of a food or beverage is provided. The nutritional supplement powder includes a protein system, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. The protein system has a water solubility of at least about 70% at room temperature. The nutritional supplement powder is essentially free of divalent ions of copper, iron, and zinc, and is also essentially free of vitamin C. When added to a food or beverage, the nutritional supplement powder does not substantially change the organoleptic properties of the food or beverage.

Abstract: Gender specific synthetic nutritional compositions comprising phenylalanine in concentrations reflecting those found in human milk produced by mothers of infants of the corresponding gender at the corresponding stage of lactation, and nutritional systems comprising them.

Abstract: A compact cold press grinder that fits within a user's hand that includes a cold press grinder and a container that holds consumables, such as fruits, vegetables, seeds, aquatic plants, and/or other nutritious consumable. The cold press grinder crushes and grinds the consumables to a liquid paste or juice using friction forces, shear forces and pressure (e.g. hydraulic press). The cold press grinder includes a housing that is removably attachable to the container. The cold press grinder may include an input for receiving the consumables within the container and a plurality of nip roller pairs that grind the consumables. The cold press grinder has one output to output the consumable as is or the liquid paste or the juice prepared by the cold press grinder and does not include an output to output consumable waste products.

Abstract: A melt-blown fabric for pouching smokeless tobacco or a smokeless tobacco substitute can include melt-blown polymer fibers. The fabric can have a basis weight of less than 30 gsm and a tensile strength of at least 4 mJ in at least one predetermined direction. Method of making the fabric can include melt-blowing a polymeric material against a support surface and bonding the fibers or arranging them in a predetermined orientation. Pouched smokeless tobacco or tobacco substitute products including the fabrics provided herein can provide desirable flavor and tactile experience.

Abstract: There is provided a solid aerosol generating material including about 5-35 wt % tobacco extract; about 50-80 wt % filler; about 10-35 wt % aerosol generating agent; and about 2.5-10 wt % binder; wherein weight percentage is calculated on a dry weight basis.

Abstract: There is provided a nicotine solution, including a carrier; nicotine in unprotonated form and in protonated form; and one or more acids, wherein at least benzoic acid, levulinic acid or a mixture thereof is present; and wherein the total content of acid present in the solution is no greater than 0.6 mole equivalents based on the nicotine.

Abstract: An automatic cigarette-making machine includes a material bin for receiving and selectively dispensing a loose combustible substance suitable to be received and packed within a hollow tube to form a cigarette. A tube bin receives and selectively dispenses hollow tubes. A tube transporting carriage selectively receives a tube from the tube bin and selectively transports a tube between positions at the tube bin and filling station. Filling apparatus selectively moves the combustible substance from the material bin into a tube at the filling station. A pressure sensor is movably positionable proximate to a tube being filled at the filling station to measure or monitor pressure of the combustible substance within the tube while it is being filled. A user interface allows a user to select a desired packing density or pressure within the tube while it is being filled and/or the number of cigarettes to be automatically produced.

Abstract: A device for moving tubular bodies, includes feeding means for feeding a plurality of tubular pieces, each extending along a respective axis of extension, where the feeding means are configured in such a way as to provide a succession of groups of tubular pieces where each group is defined by a predetermined number of tubular pieces positioned in succession along the respective axis of extension and transversely offset therefrom, and at least one translational transfer means configured to move the pieces along the respective axis of extension to juxtapose them and define an ordered succession of pieces. The translational transfer means is provided with at least one housing for containing at least one tubular piece and with blowing means operating inside the housing and configured to produce an air cushion by which the tubular piece is transferred translationally outside the housing along its respective axis of extension.

Abstract: A mouthpiece device is provided for interconnection with a personal vaporizer device. The mouthpiece is connectable to a cartridge and comprises connection members to securely interconnect the mouthpiece and the cartridge. In some embodiments, at least one connection member is provided that is detachable from a remainder of the mouthpiece to prevent tampering with a mouthpiece or a cartridge.

Abstract: A pipe smoking apparatus comprises a metal wire or filament having a linear proximal end, a linear distal end and a plurality of shaped windings, the plurality of said shaped windings between and connecting the linear proximal end to the linear distal end with a gas passage formed from the shaped windings and the space inside the shaped windings. The pipe smoking apparatus further comprises an ornamental handle on a proximal end and a cleaning accessory on the distal end. Use of the pipe smoking apparatus involves surrounding the shaped windings with tobacco or a tobacco-like substance, applying heat, inhaling the combusting smoke, manipulating the tobacco-like substance with the handle on the proximal end, and cleaning the pipe with the distal end.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides atomizers and elements thereof, such as a combined wick and heater configured to improve vaporization response time, particularly on porous, monolithic wicks. The wick can have a tapered end that engages the interior of a substantially basket-shaped wire heater coil. The heater also may be in the form of a conductive mesh that is present on a portion of the wick.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides substrates for use in storing an aerosol precursor liquid and/or transporting the liquid to a heater for vaporization. The substrates can be formed form fibers that can provide improved absorbency and/or transport qualities. Multi-layer substrates are also disclosed and can include a high absorbency layer and a hydrophobic layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tip and a corresponding vaporizer with improved ventilation. The vaporizer can include a mouthpiece and, at an opposite end, a vent opening that allows for better ventilation of the vaporizer and improved comfort and flavor during use. The vaporizer tip can also include holes that allow air to flow inside the tip and around the coil to further improve ventilation and comfort of use.

Abstract: The present invention is disclosed an electronic cigarette and an atomization control method thereof. The electronic cigarette comprises an atomization assembly, a battery assembly and a control module connected to a power source in the battery assembly and a heating wire assembly in the atomization assembly; a first conductive sleeve is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the battery assembly; a second conductive sleeve is provided on an outer peripheral surface of a suction nozzle. The electronic cigarette is actuated when the conductive sleeves arranged at different positions are in contact with the human skin, so as to reduce probability of false triggering of the electronic cigarette; and during use, this structure conforms to the users' habit of smoking by holding the battery assembly in their fingers and holding the suction nozzle in their mouths, which is convenient for the user and improves user experience.

Abstract: An electronic vaporizer including one or more air vents. The electronic vaporizer includes a triangular tubular body for housing a battery, a triangular-shaped atomizer coupled to a first end of the tubular body, the atomizer including a drip tip, a base plate, and an aperture positioned at each side of the atomizer, where each vent aperture permits air to flow into the atomizer, and a triangular-shaped base coupled to an opposing end of the tubular body. The atomizer further includes an air flow control ring for controlling the amount of air drawn into and vapor escaping the atomizer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a cavity for receiving smokable material, and a coil of heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field to heat the cavity. Also disclosed is a system including the article and apparatus. The apparatus has an interface for cooperating with the article, and a magnetic field generator. The magnetic field generator includes a coil for generating a varying magnetic field for penetrating the coil of the article when the interface is cooperating with the article. An impedance of the coil of the magnetic field generator is equal, or substantially equal, to an impedance of the coil of the article.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating an inhalable medium are disclosed. An apparatus includes a container for holding a liquid, a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container to generate a flow of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol in use, and a receptacle for receiving material. The receptacle is located adjacent to the heater such that in use, material received in the receptacle is heated by the heater. One or more constituents of material received in the receptacle in use are mixed with the flow of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol in use to produce the inhalable medium.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aerosol provision cartridge for use with an aerosol provision system, the cartridge including a liquid storage region including a source liquid, the source liquid including nicotine and at least one acid; an aerosol generating region in fluid communication with the liquid storage region; and one or more metallic components, located substantially outside of the aerosol generating region and liquid storage region, wherein at least one of the metallic components has a coating comprising silver and/or gold.

Abstract: An electronic smoking device is provided including a power supply portion comprising a power supply, an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion comprising a liquid reservoir storing a liquid, and an atomizer adapted to atomize the liquid stored in the liquid reservoir when operated by the power supply. The atomizer extends away from the liquid reservoir in a first direction. The atomizer comprises first atomizer sections, wherein each of the first atomizer sections defines an opening that is at least partly encircled by the first atomizer section. The sizes of the openings defined by the first atomizer sections decrease with increasing distance of the first atomizer sections from the liquid reservoir in the first direction.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article (10) has a longitudinal extension and comprises aerosol-generating substrate (20, 21) extending along the longitudinal extension and susceptor material (30, 31) extending along the longitudinal extension. The aerosol-forming substrate (20, 21) and the susceptor material (30, 31) form an extrudate having a same cross-sectional shape along a length of the extrudate. Also disclosed is an aerosol-generating device, which comprises a device housing (70) comprising a support element (8) extending from a proximal end of the device housing (70). The support element (8) is adapted for receiving an aerosol-generating article (10, 12) comprising aerosol-forming substrate (20, 21) and susceptor material (30, 31). A mouthpiece (71) of the device comprises a cavity to accommodate the support element (8) including aerosol-generating article (10, 12) mounted on the support element (8).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cartridge, a battery assembly and an electronic cigarette. The cartridge, includes: a liquid absorbing assembly, and a liquid container for supplying tobacco liquid to the liquid absorbing element, the liquid absorbing element is arranged below the liquid container, the liquid absorbing assembly is arranged in such a manner that the tobacco liquid is kept in the liquid container or the liquid absorbing element before the cartridge is assembled at an in-use state.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette has an atomizer. The atomizer includes a ventilation pipe; a connecting pipe sleeved on the ventilation pipe; a sleeving tube; an atomizing head, and an upper cover assembly positioned in the sleeving tube. Wherein the atomizing head is connected to the ventilation pipe and the connecting pipe, the atomizing head defining an atomizing chamber therein. The upper cover assembly is positioned on a top of the sleeving tube.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly and an atomizer assembly within a housing with the battery assembly electrically connected to the atomizer assembly. The housing has one or more air inlets. A liquid storage component is in contact with a porous component of the atomizer assembly, with the porous component having a run-through hole. A heating wire is in an air flow path through the run-through hole.

Abstract: An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one electric heater for heating the aerosol-forming substrate to form the aerosol. The heater includes a heating element of a first cross section electrically connected to a plurality of elongate support elements. Each support element has a cross section greater than the first cross section. At least one of the support elements is integrally formed with the heating element.