Abstract: Granular water-soluble food ingredients which deteriorate upon exposure to the atmosphere, such as hygroscopic organic acids which cake or coloring agents which oxidize, are protected by encapsulation in a protective coating consisting essentially of 5-37% a fatty acid derivative selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monostearate and lecithin, 15-56% propylene glycol and 38-62% flow agent, e.g., fumed silica or carboxymethylcellulose. The resulting coated particles have a long shelf life and still are substantially instantaneously soluble in water.

Abstract: Essentially solid, free-flowing, blended compositions are provided containing wastes or by-products obtained in manufacturing cooked, farinaceous food products, especially snack chips, e.g., corn chips or potato chips, and one or more of rice hulls, soybean hulls and peanut hulls. The compositions may, in addition, contain other dietary solids, such as other cellulosic fibrous wastes. The compositions are useful as animal feeds or as animal feed ingredients.

Abstract: A tubular centerfilled food product having a rigid, friable, thermoplastic baked outer shell and a core of edible filling material is produced by a continuous, straight-through process. A semi-liquid batter having a relatively high content of mono- and/or disaccharides is carried between a pair of spaced-apart moving heated surfaces and baked to form a continuous, elongated flat thermoplastic sheet having a controlled thickness. The continuous thermoplastic sheet while warm and pliable is rolled around its longitudinal axis to form a continuous tube having a closed longitudinal, non-overlapping seam. As the baked sheet is rolled around its longitudinal axis, an edible filling material is injected into the core of the continuous tube as it is formed. The filled tube is cooled until the outer shell becomes rigid and is then cut into pieces of a desired length.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with making a multi-layer pizza type product wherein, instead of a single pastry layer, two pastry layers are provided with a layer of ingredients over the second pastry layer. The method includes adding as a final layer over a first prebaked pastry layer, a layer of cheese, then stretching over this a layer of unbaked dough, partially baking the layers, adding a layer of ingredients to the upper surface of the partially baked pastry layer, and then baking the entire assembly at a specified temperature for a specified period of time until done.

Abstract: A process for obtaining lower carboxylic acids from aqueous lower carboxylic acid salts, such as obtained from a fermenter. The process involves converting the lower carboxylic acid salt to the corresponding acid with carbon dioxide, extracting the thus formed acid with a solvent and using the thus formed bicarbonate salt to buffer the fermenter.

Abstract: Cow cockle starch is used to cloud fluids. It may be added directly to the fluid or, in the case of food and beverage products, to dry powder mixes, flavor concentrates, and/or syrups. When the product contains a non-essential oil flavorant, the starch provides the entire cloud. When the product contains an essential oil flavorant, the starch enhances the cloud.

Abstract: A method is provided for preserving the pink meat color in canned, cooked "red" meat, in the absence of nitrates or nitrites, by adding to the meat selected quantity of gamma pyrones at one or more of the various stages of the curing, cooking and canning processes, and in some instances, also in connection with the addition of iron salts.

Abstract: A dry, free-flowing beverage mix and a process for its preparation are described. The method of preparation comprises coating the particles of a food acid with a desiccating agent and then mixing the coated food acid particles with a saccharide material and other dry beverage mix ingredients.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing a nutrient food by steam boiling leaves and/or stalks of water oats, inoculating a mutant, Bacillus subtilis ON-1, to the resulting boiled material and fementing it. It has been known that water oats become a nutrient food, but according to the prior art method in which the water oats are only dried, the product is poor in quality and the effective part which can be utilized is small in quantity. By inoculating a mutant, Bacillus subtilis ON-1, to the water oats and thereby fermenting them, it becomes possible to effectively use almost all of the water oats and also to obtain a superior food in quality.

Abstract: A premix to make a dietetic cake which essentially need only to be combined with bulk items such as high fructose corn syrup, flour and water, mixed and baked to produce a cake. The mix is free of artificial sweeteners, egg yolks and ordinary sugar, thus making it suitable for consumption by diabetics and coronary care patients.Fructose in the form of high fructose corn syrup provides natural sweetness and combines with a unique blend of other ingredients, including flour, emulsifiers and baking powder having glucono-delta-lactone as its acidic component to produce a cake having good volume, texture, flavor, moisture, mouth-feel, and sweetness.

Abstract: Disclosed are dry cake mixes which produce improved layer cakes. The cake mixes contain flour, sugar, emulsified shortening, leavening agents, and from about 0.2% to 10% by weight of dried citrus juice vesicle solids. The juice vesicle solids have a moisture content between about 5% to 12% and a particle size of from about 50 to 400 microns.

Abstract: A food product suitable for preparing a filled pastry shell and a method for preparing it are disclosed. The food product comprises an unbaked sheet of puff pastry dough which comprises a central portion which is sufficiently disrupted to reduce normal rising and a substantially-continuous peripheral portion which rises to a greater extent than the central portion during baking. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a frozen food insert is disposed over the central portion of the sheet and, during baking, the insert cooks to fill a recess formed as the peripheral portion of the sheet rises to form a shell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing precooked, dehydrated legumes which exhibit both minimal splitting or butterflying upon post cooking dehydration and minimal hardspotting upon rehydration in warm water. The method comprises (A) cooking legumes in sugar solutions essentially ranging from about 5 to 7 Brix and at between about 180.degree. F. to 350.degree. F. until the legumes are tender and fully hydrated. Thereafter, the cooked legumes are (B) dehydrated to shelf stable moisture contents of between about 4% to 12% using conventional dehydration techniques.

Abstract: A method of preserving fruit, for example cherries, containing natural sugars which comprises storing the fruit in a sulfite brine for a substantial period whereby sugars of the fruit are leached into the brine, removing minerals, coloring and taste-embittering substances from the brine to form a sugar-containing liquor, and washing the fruit treated with the brine with the liquor so that during the washing the liquor and the fruit have substantially the same sugar levels.

Abstract: A method for the production of a low-caloric noodle containing agar and starch as the main ingredients and the low-caloric food produced by the method, which method comprises the steps of preparing a sol mixture consisting of 100 parts by weight of water, 0.7 to 3.5 parts by weight of agar and 10 to 40 parts by weight of starch and possessed of a viscosity of 100 to 6500 cp at 55.degree. C. and subsequently shaping the sol mixture by extrusion through an orifice.

Abstract: A method, and the product rendered by the method, for processing citrus fruit to tenderize the intermediate membrane between adjacent fruit sections includes heating canned citrus sections containing membranes to an elevated center can temperature in order to tenderize the membrane, but in which the cooking process is insufficient to appreciably damage the juice sacs in the fruit sections adjacent to the membrane.

Abstract: An edible food container (10) and mold (22) for making the same. The edible food container (10) is cylindrically contoured and extends in a longitudinal direction having a cylindrical food cavity formed therein. An end section (16) of edible food container (10) is closed to provide an overall cup-shaped contour. A food (12) may be inserted within the food cavity (14) and the food (12) and edible food container (10) may be consumed as a unitary combination. The food (12) is captured within the edible food container (10) and provides for a minimization of leakage and spillage during the ingestion process.

Abstract: A method of making yogurt by mixing a boiling liquid with cold milk in proportions to provide a mixture at a temperature of about 112.degree. to 118.degree. F. adding yogurt culture to the mixture, storing the mixture in an insulated vessel to permit fermentation to the mixture to form a yogurt. An apparatus including a container having a level indicator for cold milk and a second level indicator for a mixture of cold milk and a boiling liquid, one of said indicators indicating a plurality of levels in terms of temperature of the cold milk whereby the resultant mixture will have a temperature of between 112.degree. and 118.degree. F. when filled to the level indicated for the temperature of the cold milk.

Abstract: Novel products are prepared from Aroid corms by first peeling and washing the corms and then cutting the corms into pieces. Aqueous alkali is applied to the corms to remove acid principles and then the corms are treated with aqueous hydrogen peroxide to prevent discoloration. The so-treated corms are washed with water until they are neutral and then dried.