Abstract: There is disclosed a low-calorie powdered ice tea composition and a method for making the same. The ice tea composition comprises finely ground particles of ice tea solids; finely ground particles of at least one artificial sweetener; and a granulated citric acid where the granules have an average particle size where greater than about 90% of the particles have a size in the range of about 425 to about 1180 microns. With such a composition, the ice tea solids and the citric acid dissolve in a liquid at different rates.

Abstract: A method of producing dehydrated rice flakes wherein dehydration of an aqueous slurry of substantially completely gelatinized rice starch granules and gelatinization and dehydration of a minor proportion of admixed ungelatinized rice starch granules is concurrently effected with a drum dryer. The dried sheet of substantially completely gelatinized rice material from the dryer is then subdivided into flakes or small platelets which require only the addition of hot water to quickly rehydrate to form a cooked rice product having the appearance and textural quality approaching that of freshly cooked mashed potatoes.