Abstract: Dried fruit has a coating of microcrystalline cellulose in an amount effective to prevent agglomeration of the dried fruit. Methods of preparing and using the coated dried fruit are also described. The dried fruit pieces of the present invention are less sticky and are readily separated from one another using ordinary gravity feed handling conditions.
Abstract: Natural cheese which comprises a lactic acid bacterium belonging to Lactobacillus gasseri having a disinfection potency against Helicobacter pylori, and a method for producing the natural cheese.
Abstract: A food composition comprising gas bubbles is provided. It contains based on the food composition at least 10 wt. % of water, optionally fat, wherein the amount of fat and water taken together is at least 60 wt. % and less than 99 wt. %, at least 1 vol. % and less than 70 vol. % of gas, fiber particles and surface active particles. The volume weighted mean diameter of the surface active particles (d2) is smaller than the length of the fiber particles (L). Also a process is provided to prepare the product. The process includes the steps of incorporating surface active particles and fiber particles in a liquid food composition, incorporating gas in said liquid composition and packing the food composition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2007
Date of Patent:
December 3, 2013
Assignee:
Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Theodorus Berend Jan Blijdenstein, Jian Cao, Petrus Wilhelmus N de Groot, Weichang Liu, Simeon Dobrev Stoyanov, Weizheng Zhou
Abstract: Producing soluble oat or barley flour by using enzymes to precondition whole oat or barley flour prior to an extrusion (continuous cooking) process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 2009
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2013
Assignee:
The Quaker Oats Company
Inventors:
Robert Chatel, Yongsoo Chung, Justin French
Abstract: Beverage compositions including a sweetening amount of Rebaudioside D and an acidulant. The beverage has a titratable acidity of about 9 to about 11.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 13, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 17, 2013
Assignee:
Concentrate Manufacturing Company of Ireland
Inventors:
Pei K. Chang, Todd A. Zaniewski, Thomas Lee, Hang Chen
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a flake having a high level of whole grains, such as oat groats, nuts and/or other particulate. An embodiment of the present invention provides a flake having a low degree of degradation giving the flake a granola appearance and texture, a relatively large thickness of the flake, which further contributes to the appearance and the crunchy texture, and/or uses a low degree of cook to the binding constituent that provides the high viscosity for binding and a resultant crunchy texture.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 29, 2013
Assignee:
Hearthside Food Solutions LLC
Inventors:
Larry Donald Schopf, Bryan Jarel Streety, Guru Hari Singh Khalsa, Peter Hynding Mattson
Abstract: An electroluminescent device includes a hole injecting electrode, an electron injecting electrode and at least one organic light emitting layer disposed between the hole injecting electrode and the electron injecting electrode wherein a layered metal chalcogenide layer is disposed between the hole injecting electrode and the light emitting layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 16, 2002
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
Cambridge University Technical Services Limited
Abstract: A decorative panel includes a body constructed from a single layer of a polymer based blanket material having a surface zone. Printing is directly applied to an exposed face of that surface zone. The surface zone may be densified relative to the remainder of the body to tune the acoustical and physical properties of the panel for a particular application and/or to allow for high definition printing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 2003
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2011
Assignee:
Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Tilton, Clarke Berdan, II, Jerry M. Parks