Abstract: A hand operated press 10 for foodstuff includes a base plate assembly 20 with a moving plate assembly 40 hingedly mounted at a predetermined points of their peripheries. An actuating arm 60 is hingedly mounted to the periphery of the base plate assembly 20 at a point opposite to where moving plate assembly 40 is hingedly mounted. A concave portion 70 in the actuating arm with a concavity facing the distal end of the moving plate comes in cammingly contact avoiding a perpendicular angle of attack. A protuberance 48 extending from the distal end 47 of the moving plate assembly 40 further ensures the cammingly contact while preventing actuating arm assembly 60 to totally collapse against the base plate assembly. A curved portion adjacent to the concave portion is prevents a user's fingers from coining in contact with the base plate assembly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high protein bakery product containing low amounts of sugar and wheat flour, which may be gluten-free if required. The bakery product is suitable to be cooked in a microwave. There is also provided a method of forming the bakery product.

Abstract: A tenderizer system, apparatus and method to tenderize meat products and other foods through a cross-cut tenderizing process. This process can be performed by a tenderizer cartridge including at least two shafts in parallel, where a stack of blades are disposed on each shaft and in contact with each other along a respective shaft, each blade including teeth around outer circumferences such that each blade in contact is aligned to form continuous ridges that extend in parallel with the shafts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing sausage-shaped products, like sausages, containing a flowable filling material in a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing, on a clipping machine having a control unit for controlling the clipping machine, the method comprises the steps of feeding the filling material in a feeding direction into the tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing stored on a filling tube and being closed at the front end by a closure means, like a closure clip, gathering the filled tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing by gathering means arranged downstream the filling tube, for forming a plait-like portion thereto, and placing and closing at least one closure means on the plait-like portion for closing the filled tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing.

Abstract: A method of making a porous, crunchy, dehydrated, vegetable, meat or seafood snack product. A piece of vegetable, such as potato, sweet potato, carrot, beet or parsnip, or a piece of meat or seafood, is frozen, forming ice crystals within the piece of food. The frozen piece is exposed to microwave radiation in a microwave-vacuum dehydrator at a vacuum pressure at which the boiling point of water is above 0° C., causing the frozen piece to thaw and water to evaporate from the thawed piece. The evaporation leaves pores that were formed by the ice crystals within the piece of food, resulting in a porous, crunchy, dehydrated snack product.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are biopolymer-based coatings and products incorporating such coatings. Related methods and use are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a fermented milk product comprising the steps of 1) adding a starter culture comprising at least one lactic acid bacteria strain to a milk base, 2) fermenting the milk for a period of time until a target pH is reached, 3) using a starter culture comprising at least one lactose-deficient strain, which is capable of metabolizing a non-lactose carbohydrate, and 4) adding a low pH stable lactase to the process either at the start, during or at the end of the fermentation step, wherein the low pH stable lactase retains its activity at a pH of 5.0 and a temperature of 37° C. at a level of at least 5% as compared to its activity at the optimum pH of the lactase.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a processed fortified human milk product from raw human milk, and processed fortified human milk product compositions obtained thereby, are provided. The processed fortified human milk product composition possesses high nutritional content such as high concentrations of protein and human milk oligosaccharides. The processed fortified human milk product composition exhibits low overall bioburden and is non-allogenic and non-immunogenic. When ingested by an individual, the processed fortified human milk product composition achieves high bioavailability and reduces inflammatory processes.

Abstract: The invention provides for methods and foods with reduced or no chelating agents. The present invention also relates to methods for using high stability oils including high-stability high-oleic oils produced using genetically engineered microalgae. The oils can be used in multiple food-related applications including frying, spray-coating, and lubrication of equipment. The oils can also be blended with vegetable oils or interesterified with vegetable oils.

Abstract: A plant-based soluble dietary fiber formulation can be used as an oil and fat substitute. It can be a fluid or solid (frozen or dry). The oil and fat substitute can be an aqueous mixture, comprising soluble dietary fiber. This mixture can be used in cooking, sautéing, baking, and food preparation in place of oils and fats. The oil and fat substitute can be in dry form and used in dry mixes for baking, sauces, gravies, dressings, and the like in place of oils and fats.

Abstract: The invention provides porous tea granules comprising leaf tea particles and binder, wherein at least 50% by weight of the leaf tea particles have a particle size of 100 ?m to 300 ?m; the binder is a tea-based binder comprising tea solids; the tea granules comprise binder in an amount of 1 to 40% by dry weight; and the porous tea granules have a D[4,3] of more than 350 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a beverage composition, including: non-polymer catechins; and caffeine, the beverage composition satisfying the following requirements (A), (B), and (C): (A) a mass ratio of caffeine/non-polymer catechins is 0.180 or less; (B) particles contained in the beverage composition have an average particle size of 3 ?m or less; and (C) a turbidity is 30 NTU or more.

Abstract: A dietary supplement composition having a dispersion including a plurality of liposomal vesicles, includes an active ingredient, phospholipid contained in the liposomal vesicles, and a coating material. The active ingredient is incorporated within the liposomal vesicles having a barrier coating of the coating material including one of a biopolymer, polyethylene glycol, chitosan and a combination thereof. The coating material is free flowing in the dispersion such that the liposomal vesicles are surrounded by the coating material without being attached to the liposomal vesicles and without forming part of the liposomal vesicles and without affecting weight of the liposomal vesicles. The dispersion is filtered using a tangential flow technique, which washes out outer periphery of liposomal vesicles for removing inactive ingredients contained outside the liposomal vesicles without washing out the coating material surrounding the liposomal vesicles.

Abstract: A machine for making liquid or semi-liquid food products is provided with a frame, a product processing unit and a control unit for driving the processing unit; the processing unit is in turn provided with a first vessel which is set in rotation about its central axis by a brushless gear motor and which defines inside it a product processing chamber, a stirrer provided with a spatula mounted inside the processing chamber, and a movement unit for moving the stirrer; the movement unit for moving the stirrer imparts to the spatula, through two distinct linear actuators, a first movement, towards and away from the bottom of the first vessel, and a second movement, independent of the first, towards and away from the inside wall of the first vessel.

Abstract: Novel blends useful for use in manufacturing petfood products are disclosed. These novel blends can be used to manufacture petfood products which have physical integrity. They are also used to manufacture petfood products that are palatable to pets and with acceptable texture and/or smell to pet owners. The blends can be utilised using existing equipment and techniques. Also described are novel petfood products manufactured using the blends.

Abstract: Edible pet chews are made of one or two layers, each layer comprising a thin slice of sweet potato, and one of the layers being processed to form irregularities, the layers being rolled into a tubular body and treated with heat to form a single- or dual-layered dehydrated tube having the irregularities oriented toward the interior cavity of the tubular body, the interior cavity being fillable with a beneficial material of suitable viscosity to provide a beneficial or therapeutic effect to the animal as the animal chews on the edible pet chew.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gel used as a source of water and/or nutrients for rearing insects. The gel comprises 90 to 99.6% by weight of an aqueous substrate comprising at least 25% by weight, of the total weight of the aqueous substrate, of a liquid coproduct from agro-industry, 0.3 to 2% by weight of a gelling agent, and 0.1 to 5% by weight of a preservative, the percentages by weight of aqueous substrate, gelling agent and preservative being expressed over the total weight of the gel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved formulations of 3-nitrooxypropanol and derivatives thereof as well as to the production of such formulations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating insects, comprising the separation of the cuticles from the soft part of the insects, followed by the separation of the soft part of the insects into an oil fraction, a solid fraction and an aqueous fraction. The invention further relates to powders, in particular a powder obtainable by the method of treating insects according to the invention, and to the use of these powders in food.

Abstract: Pet food compositions and methods for improving food intake of a pet are provided. The method may include providing an effective amount of the pet food composition including fermentable fibers and betaine in a wet formulation.

Abstract: A method for making kombucha alcohol; the method includes a preparing a symbiotic culture, fermenting a sweetened tea with the symbiotic culture to provide a fermented tea drink, and combining an alcohol beverage to the fermented tea drink. The method for making kombucha alcohol is useful for combining the properties associated with alcohol and Kombucha for human consumption.

Abstract: Juice products and associated methods are provided that include a fruit or vegetable juice having one or more polyphenols, and an anti-browning agent that includes acerola in an amount effective to reduce oxidation of the one or more polyphenols by polyphenol oxidase (PPO). For example, the disclosed method can include providing a juice having one or more polyphenols, in which the juice is a fruit or vegetable juice, and adding an anti-browning agent to the juice, in which the anti-browning agent includes acerola in an amount effective to inhibit oxidation of the one or more polyphenols by polyphenol oxidase (PPO).

Abstract: Processing of liquid food (102) in a system (100) is disclosed. The liquid food (102) is provided from a balance tank (104) to a heat treatment unit 106. The heat treating unit (106) receives and heat treats the liquid food (102) to provide heat treated liquid food (102a). A filter (108) receives and filters the heat treated liquid food (102a) to provide filtered, heat treated liquid food (102b). A packaging device (110) receives and packages the filtered heat treated liquid food (102b). Filtering of the liquid food (102) takes place on a heat treated side of the system (100), as close as possible to the packaging device (110).

Abstract: Sweetener and flavor compositions with improved taste profiles are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and methods of using such sweetener and flavor compositions.

Abstract: Frozen plant-based breakfast bowl products and associated precursor compositions provide a healthy, nutritious, and tasty breakfast or snack. The products and compositions are made with fresh frozen ingredients, without adding refined sugar, artificial ingredients, or artificial preservatives.

Abstract: A freezing method using a gas as a refrigerant, comprising: step 1: using a colorless, tasteless, and non-toxic liquid gas or supercritical gas as a refrigerant for freezing; step 2: immersing a product to be frozen in the liquid gas or the supercritical gas until the center temperature of the product to be frozen reaches the temperature of a freezing stage; and step 4: taking out the product to be frozen and transferring it to a frozen storage low temperature environment for storing. A multi-stage freezing method using a gas as a refrigerant, comprising: step 1: dividing the freezing process for a product to be frozen into at least two freezing stages; step 2: sequentially performing freezing operations corresponding to each of the freezing stages on the product to be frozen; and step 3: transferring, after balancing the pressure of the product to be frozen with the atmospheric pressure, the product to be frozen to the frozen storage low temperature environment for storing.

Abstract: Provided are methods of making high quality seaweed meal suitable for food applications. The method comprises the steps of cleaning the fresh, dried, or rehydrated red seaweed, pretreating the red seaweed with a salt under heat, and drying and grinding the treated red seaweed to obtain the seaweed meal. Optionally, the method comprises bleaching the red seaweed, and/or hydrolyzing the red seaweed with cellulase. The seaweed meal produced by the disclosed technology has a light color, good flavor and taste, good mouthfeel, high gelling capability, great stability, and ideal smoothness and slipperiness suitable for food applications.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions including steviol glycosides. The present disclosure also relates to sweetener compositions and sweetened compositions including steviol glycosides, and uses of such sweetener compositions to prepare sweetened compositions including food, beverages, dental products, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and the like.

Abstract: A natural compound biopreservative for sashimi. The biopreservative is prepared from 20-30 parts by weight of a Fagopyrum tataricum extract, 10-15 parts by weight of an Osbeckia chinensis extract and 5-10 parts by weight of a mint extract. The preservative of the invention has good antibacterial and bactericidal performances and oxidation resistance, thereby maintaining the freshness and taste of the sashimi.

Abstract: The present invention can provide: a prophylactic or ameliorating/therapeutic agent for chronic fatigue syndrome, idiopathic chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, which contains a processed product of Japanese horseradish (wasabi) as an active ingredient; a food, a beverage, a medicine or a cosmetic, and a medicine for preventing or ameliorating/treating diseases relating to chronic fatigue syndrome, idiopathic chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, each of which contains the processed product of wasabi; and methods for using these products.

Abstract: A nutritional food product is provided that is high in egg-based protein but does not exhibit an unpleasant taste. The nutritional food product includes at least about 50% by weight of egg protein and between about 0.1% to about 15% by weight of carbohydrates.

Abstract: A system for steam-peeling products including a rotatable pressure vessel having a wall surrounding a pressure space, an opening for products, and a closure member for closing the opening. A feeder feeds steam to the pressure space. An evacuator evacuates steam and condensate from the pressure space. At least one agitation member is disposed on vessel. The at least one agitation member has an agitation body with a convex shape that together with the wall surrounds a cavity, and on a front side has at least one flow opening in the agitation body and/or between the body and the wall. Part of the wall jointly surrounds the cavity and has a flow opening to a collection tank outside of the pressure vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating a ribbon of uncooked embossed dough into separated pieces patterned/shaped like the embossed pattern. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced apart rollers for receiving a ribbon of dough there between. One of rollers has a pattern embossed on its surface to emboss the ribbon of dough with the pattern. The surface embossing and the spacing between the rollers maintains the structural integrity of the embossed ribbon of dough. The apparatus has a two spaced apart rotating arms to receive the embossed dough ribbon there between. A plurality of spaced apart fingers extend outward along the length of each of the arms and are configured to tear the dough, without sticking, into dough pieces reflecting shapes embossed in the dough ribbon. The dough pieces can be dried, and patterned shaped pieces are separated out for expansion to three dimensions by cooking.

Abstract: A moulding installation and method for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass are described. A revolving mould drum is provided with multiple mould cavities and a mass feed member is arranged at a fill position to transfer foodstuff mass into passing mould cavities. The foodstuff mass forms a food product in the mould cavity. A pressurized air food product ejection system includes air ducts in the mould drum that extend to the cavities and at least a portion of the surface delimiting a mould cavity is air permeable. The ejection system further includes a pressurized air source to feed pressurized air at a regulated ejection air pressure thereof to the air ducts. A controller is adapted to input at least one target parameter related to filling of the mould cavities with the foodstuff mass via the mouth of the mass feed member. The controller is adapted to automatically set an ejection air pressure by the pressurized air source on the basis of the inputted target parameter.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Also provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel Nic1 mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or nicotine free while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.

Abstract: A chaga mushroom chew composition including a tobacco alternative having a mixture of mushrooms from the chaga mushroom-species and additives creating a smokeless tobacco-like composition. The chaga mushroom chew composition provides a healthy substitute for chewing tobacco, the composition capable of being absorbed orally providing health benefits to a user. The tobacco alternative is used to provide a product that has the same look and feel as tobacco.

Abstract: A foam includes a tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or an inhalable agent, an aerosol forming agent, a foam stabilizing agent, and a foam forming agent. In one embodiment, a weight of the tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or the inhalable agent is 0.1-33 wt.-% of a weight of the foam, and a weight of the aerosol forming agent is 10-80 wt. % of the weight of the foam. In another embodiment, the foam forming agent is a non-protein contain polysaccharide and a weight of the foam forming agent is less than 20 wt.-% of the foam.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention features a method of administering nicotine or a salt thereof to a human, wherein the method includes inhaling an aerosol of a liquid formulation, the liquid formulation comprising: (i) at least 12 percent by weight of water; (ii) at least 70 percent by weight of propylene glycol; and (iii) at least 2 percent by weight of said nicotine or a salt thereof; wherein the liquid formulation includes no more than 5 percent by weight of glycerol and no more than 5 percent by weight of ethanol. The present invention also features an aerosol-generating device and a reservoir for such a device containing such a liquid formulation.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a dual-use cigarette and a tobacco filler thereof, the cigarette comprises a tobacco filling segment and a filter tip segment which are wrapped by roll paper, wherein the tobacco filler in the tobacco filling segment comprises tobacco raw materials added with PG and VG, the percentage by weight of the PG and VG in the tobacco raw materials is 5%-50%, and the percentage by weight of water content in the tobacco raw materials is 5%-10%. The present invention has the advantage that the smoke has no water bad odor and is close to common cigarettes.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a dual-use cigarette, comprising a suckable material segment and a filter tip segment which are wrapped by roll paper, wherein a hollowed segment surrounded by roll paper is disposed between the suckable material segment and the filter tip segment, and the roll paper of the hollowed segment is provided with a plurality of first capillary pores. The dual-use cigarette has the advantages that cold air cannot be sucked when smoking is started, and the burn of a respiratory mucosa caused by high temperature smoke can be avoided.

Abstract: A smoking article comprises a tobacco rod and a filter connected to the tobacco rod. The filter comprises a first filter segment and a hollow tube segment downstream of the first filter segment. The hollow tube segment defines a cavity at the mouth end of the filter providing an unrestricted flow channel that extends from the downstream end of the first filter segment to the mouth end of the filter. The length of the hollow tube segment is at least about 25 percent of the overall filter length. Further, the smoking article comprises a ventilation zone comprising at least one circumferential row of perforations provided at a location around the first filter segment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a smoking article (10) comprising a tobacco rod (12) and a filter, the filter comprising a filter unit (14) comprising a first segment (16) of filtration material; a second segment comprising a tubular element (18) of filtration material upstream of the first segment (16), the tubular element (18) having an outer diameter (D2) and an inner diameter (D1). An inner surface of the tubular element (18) is substantially air impermeable. The second segment further comprises a frangible or irreversibly collapsible flow restrictor (24) disposed in the tubular element (18). When the flow restrictor (24) is in a substantially unbroken or non-collapsed state, the filter unit (14) has a first RTD. When the flow restrictor (24) is broken or collapsed, the filter unit (14) has a second RTD, the second RTD being smaller than the first RTD.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a product for baking and atomizing, characterized by comprising a baking and atomizing segment and a filter tip segment which are wrapped by common paper, wherein a hollowed segment wrapped by the common paper is disposed between the baking and atomizing segment and the filter tip segment, the baking and atomizing segment is filled with plant fiber adsorbing an atomized object, the filter tip segment is filled with PLA, and a total length of the filter tip segment and the hollowed segment is larger than 30 mm. The product for baking and atomizing has the advantages of low cost and good environmental protection.

Abstract: A filter for a smoking article includes filtration material and an amorphous magnesium carbonate material contained within the filtration material. A smoking article includes a smokable material and the filter downstream of the smokable material.

Abstract: A water pipe is provided with an integrated lighter receptacle to reliably retain a handheld lighter in a convenient location. The water pipe includes a basin with a chamber pipe extending upwardly from the basin and a bowl configured to hold a smoking material. The lighter receptacle is integrated with the basin, such as by being integrally formed as a unitary piece with the basin, to retain the handheld lighter in position proximate the bowl so that smoking material in the bowl can be ignited when necessary during a smoking use. The interior of the lighter receptacle is sized to receive at least half of the handheld lighter. Thus, the additional equipment used when smoking with a water pipe are not misplaced or lost during smoking.

Abstract: A smoking stent that is inserted into a wrapped smoking product to create a smoking assembly. The presence of the stent prevents the end of the wrapped smoking product from losing integrity when made wet by the mouth. The stent device has a tubular body that defines a central conduit. Side openings are disposed along the tubular body that provide access to the central conduit. The stent device is inserted within the mouth end of the wrapped smoking product so that the central conduit of the tubular body extends into the fill. When the wrapped smoking product is lighted, the smoke is drawn out of the wrapped smoking device through the central conduit of the stent device.

Abstract: A method of controlling or electing the harshness of inhaled nicotine powder formulations is described. The method includes the steps of identifying a concentration of nicotine for a subject to inhale to achieve a desired level of harshness per inhalation, identifying the total dose of nicotine to be inhaled by the subject, and providing the subject with an amount of a formulation comprising nicotine particles having the identified concentration of nicotine, such that the total amount of nicotine particles in the formulation equals the total dose of nicotine.

Abstract: An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a segmented heater including a plurality of heating elements that are separately powerable to heat and thereby vaporize components of an aerosol precursor composition, and a control component for the segmented heater. The control component includes a logic circuit with a data input and a plurality of outputs each output of which is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of heating elements of the segmented heater. A processor produces and provides a logic signal including at least a high voltage level to the data input of the logic circuit and causes the logic circuit to provide the high voltage level at one or more outputs of the plurality of outputs of the logic circuit, and thereby powers respective one or more heating elements of the plurality of heating elements of the segmented heater to heat and thereby vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.

Abstract: An electromagnetic heating smoking paraphernalia capable of evenly heating tobacco particles includes a tobacco particle heating tank, wherein the tobacco particle heating tank includes a metal inductive cylinder and a tight coil, a space between the metal inductive cylinder and the tight coil is a tobacco particle holding cavity; an end of the tobacco particle holding cavity is provided with an upper end wall, the upper end wall is provided with an upper end wall vent hole, the other end of the tobacco particle holding cavity is provided with a lower end wall, the lower end wall is provided with a lower end wall vent hole; the tight coil means that adjacent turns of the coil are tightly placed close to each other in a longitudinal axial direction without a gap; an inner wall of the metal inductive cylinder is provided with an inner wall vent hole.

Abstract: An aerosol generating apparatus, especially a personal vaporizer device such as an electronic smoking article, generates an aerosol from a source of aerosol-forming substance. The aerosol generating apparatus includes a receiving portion configured to receive a consumable unit, such as a charge or cartridge including a source of aerosol-forming substance, and at least one locating member for locating the consumable unit within the receiving portion. The at least one locating member is configured to locate or position the consumable unit within the receiving portion such that an airflow path extends along outer sides of the consumable unit and through the consumable unit entering at one end region thereof and exiting from an opposite end region thereof, with the outer sides of the consumable unit being arranged between the one end region and the opposite end region.