Abstract: Synthetic granular caviar having a jelled center of gelatin containing additional protein and being surrounded by two coatings; the inner coating being the reaction product of said jelled center with vegetable tannins and the outer coating being the reaction product of a polyvalent metal salt and an acid polysaccharide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to food industry equipment. It is particularly adapted for use in the production of granulated food products, preferably imitation soft caviar. The device is provided with a heated chamber for keeping said solutions or suspensions under pressure, which has through holes drilled along a concentrical circumference in the chamber bottom. Tightly pressed to the bottom from inside is a revolving disk with through holes that are to match the holes in the chamber bottom during rotation of the disk. A vessel is installed under said chamber to contain a forming liquid and to form granules from the solutions or the suspensions fed into the vessel via the holes in the bottom of said chamber. This vessel is cooled and accommodates a pipe for feeding the forming liquid to the vessel and a pipe for taking it out of the vessel together with formed granules.