Abstract: Filled roll dough products, such as pizza rolls, are made with an outer dough shell with an internal filling material. Versus a conventional pizza roll, pizza rolls in accordance with the invention employs a filling material having a lower viscosity upon heating due to the removal of a majority of a viscosity altering additive (e.g., methyl cellulose) used in a conventional filling and an outer dough shell formed with spaced internal ridges which increase the structural integrity of the outer shell while not at all changing the external appearance. While removal of the viscosity altering additive from the filling material increases a blow-out rate for the product, the inclusion of the ridges decreases the blow-out rate to the extent that either a reduction or no significant change in product blow-rates is produced.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for interoperability between pathways configured and executable on a device. The device may execute, via a pathway engine, a plurality of pathways. Each pathway of the plurality of pathways may monitor a defined set of data points of a user and execute actions based on monitoring of the defined set of data points. A first pathway may determine a point in execution of the first pathway to receive one or more inputs from a second pathway of the plurality of pathways. The first pathway may receive, from the second pathway, as input data values of a second defined set of data being monitored by the second pathway. The first pathway may determine, using the values of the first defined set of data points and values of the second defined set of data, to take a predetermined action of the first pathway.

Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods providing a pathway configurable and executable via a pathway engine on a device. A device may establish a pathway configured via a pathway engine to execute on the device to monitor data points of a user and to generate actions based on monitoring of the data points. A monitor of the pathway engine may monitor data points of the user received by the device. The monitor may compare each value of the data points to the expected value and the predetermined threshold specified for the trigger condition. The pathway, based on the comparison, may determine that the trigger condition has been triggered. The pathway, responsive to the triggering of the trigger condition, may initiate an alert to identify the trigger condition and execution of the action specified by the pathway.

Abstract: Visually distinct, flaked Ready-to-Eat cereal products with varied texture and thickness are produced by forming a cereal dough and forcing the same through an extrusion die assembly including various spaced openings which establish a plurality of dough streams which are merged prior to reaching a die outlet. Directly at the die outlet, a resulting dough extrudate is sliced by a cutter unit to form dough discs which are then dried and cooled, during which the discs curl and form cereal flakes having varying textures defined, at least in part, by distinct sets of surface bumps. The number and configuration of the bumps can be altered by changing the number, shape and/or position of the various spaced openings of the die assembly, while the thickness of the resulting cereal flakes can be varied by just altering an operational speed of the cutter unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: Visually distinct, flaked Ready-to-Eat (“R-T-E”) cereal products with varied texture and thickness are produced by forming a cereal dough and forcing the same through an extrusion die assembly including various spaced openings which establish a plurality of dough streams which are merged prior to reaching a die outlet. Directly at the die outlet, a resulting dough extrudate is sliced by a cutter unit to form dough discs which are then dried and cooled, during which the discs curl and form cereal flakes having varying textures defined, at least in part, by distinct sets of surface bumps. The number and configuration of the bumps can be altered by changing the number, shape and/or position of the various spaced openings of the die assembly, while the thickesses of the resulting cereal flakes can be varied by just altering an operational speed of the cutter unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: Visually distinct, flaked Ready-to-Eat (“R-T-E”) cereal products with varied texture and thickness are produced by forming a cereal dough and forcing the same through an extrusion die assembly including various spaced openings which establish a plurality of dough streams which are merged prior to reaching a die outlet. Directly at the die outlet, a resulting dough extrudate is sliced by a cutter unit to form dough discs which are then dried and cooled, during which the discs curl and form cereal flakes having varying textures defined, at least in part, by distinct sets of surface bumps. The number and configuration of the bumps can be altered by changing the number, shape and/or position of the various spaced openings of the die assembly, while the thicknesses of the resulting cereal flakes can be varied by just altering an operational speed of the cutter unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, a system for making an extruded protein product using a system that includes a die including channel having a transverse cross section that is a continuous loop along at least a portion of the length of the die is disclosed.

Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for providing a web interface for monitoring a status of pathways of a plurality of users. A first display may display the first interface displaying a plurality of tiles. Each tile may correspond to a user currently being monitored via executing pathways. A second display may display the second interface displaying a first queue of encounters with users currently in progress and a second queue of recently completed user encounters. The first interface may receive a first selection of one tile to initiate a first encounter with a first user corresponding to the selected tile. The second interface may receive a second selection in the first queue to open a second encounter in progress with a second user. The second interface may receive a third selection in the second queue to view a third encounter completed with a third user.

Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for interoperability between pathways configured and executable on a device. The device may execute, via a pathway engine, a plurality of pathways. Each pathway of the plurality of pathways may monitor a defined set of data points of a user and execute actions based on monitoring of the defined set of data points. A first pathway may determine a point in execution of the first pathway to receive one or more inputs from a second pathway of the plurality of pathways. The first pathway may receive, from the second pathway, as input data values of a second defined set of data being monitored by the second pathway. The first pathway may determine, using the values of the first defined set of data points and values of the second defined set of data, to take a predetermined action of the first pathway.

Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods providing a pathway configurable and executable via a pathway engine on a device. A device may establish a pathway configured via a pathway engine to execute on the device to monitor data points of a user and to generate actions based on monitoring of the data points. A monitor of the pathway engine may monitor data points of the user received by the device. The monitor may compare each value of the data points to the expected value and the predetermined threshold specified for the trigger condition. The pathway, based on the comparison, may determine that the trigger condition has been triggered. The pathway, responsive to the triggering of the trigger condition, may initiate an alert to identify the trigger condition and execution of the action specified by the pathway.

Abstract: Visually distinct, flaked Ready-to-Eat (“R-T-E”) cereal products with varied texture and thickness are produced by forming a cereal dough and forcing the same through an extrusion die assembly including various spaced openings which establish a plurality of dough streams which are merged prior to reaching a die outlet. Directly at the die outlet, a resulting dough extrudate is sliced by a cutter unit to form dough discs which are then dried and cooled, during which the discs curl and form cereal flakes having varying textures defined, at least in part, by distinct sets of surface bumps. The number and configuration of the bumps can be altered by changing the number, shape and/or position of the various spaced openings of the die assembly, while the thicknesses of the resulting cereal flakes can be varied by just altering an operational speed of the cutter unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a single extrudable food stream such as a cooked cereal dough into a plurality of differently colored and/or flavored dough streams is disclosed including an extruder having screw augers for advancing a plastic food mass, a head or manifold for dividing the plastic food mass into a plurality of substreams each in turn in fluid communication with a plurality of sub-divided dough passageways, and a die head having a plurality of die ports. Each subpassage is separately supplied an additive and has disposed therein a multiplicity of in-line static mixer elements to admix the additive into the substreams of the plastic food mass before passage through the die ports. In a preferred form, first and second substreams are intermixed in a non-homogenous manner before reaching the exit ports. The extrudates are severed into individual pieces by a rotary cutter.