Patents Assigned to Mapam, Inc.
  • Process containing a cooking extrusion step for forming a food product from a cereal
    Patent number: 4778690
    Abstract: A snack food is prepared from whole kernel cereal, without milling, such as corn, rice or wheat and the like. By rehydrating the cereal to at least 25% moisture prior to low shear cooking extrusion to achieve about 75% gelatinization, then cooling and drying the material prior to extrusion into a selected form for further mechanical treatment or finish cooking and flavoring. When cooked in oil a lower fat product results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Mapam, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley S. Sadel, Jr., Valerio Sangiovanni