Abstract: Provided are methods of manufacturing breadcrumb and a breadcrumb coated food product. The method of manufacture of breadcrumb involves contacting a flour mixture with an aqueous solution of a gelling agent and a bleaching agent, allowing the solution to be absorbed by the mixture to form a slurry, extruding the slurry to form pellets, and drying and milling the pellets to form breadcrumb. The method of manufacture of a breadcrumb coated food product involves contacting a breadcrumb with an aqueous solution of a gelling agent, allowing the solution to be absorbed by the crumb, drying the crumb and applying the crumb as a coating to a food substrate.

Abstract: A microwave oven food container in the form of a receptacle for foodstuffs. The receptacle is composed of a polymeric material containing a microwave absorbent filler, which may comprise carbon or metal particles.

Abstract: A microwave cookable or reheatable food material including a substrate foodstuff impregnated with a stabilizer composition adapted to increase in viscosity when irradiated in a microwave oven, and a method of stabilising a microwave cookable or reheatable food material including the step of impregnating the product with the stabilizer composition.