Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
Patent
1994-07-28
1996-08-13
Kepplinger, Esther M.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
426407, 426629, A23B 900, A23L 120, A23L 300
Patent
active
055454259
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a shelf-stable, packaged, legume-containing product, said process comprising: (a) preconditioning dry legumes by contacting said dry legumes with a sufficient amount of an initial water source and for a sufficient period of time to produce pretreated legumes having a moisture content in the range of from about 15 wt. % to about 35 wt. %; (b) hydrating said pretreated legumes by contacting said pretreated legumes with a sufficient amount of a secondary water source for a sufficient period of time to produce hydrated legumes having a moisture content in the range of from about 35 wt. % to about 55 wt. %, wherein said secondary water source is at a temperature in the range of from about 60.degree. C. to about 95.degree. C.; (c) combining said hydrated legumes with a vehicle, thereby producing a legume-containing mixture comprising from about 10 wt. % to about 55 wt. % of said hydrated legumes and a balance of said vehicle; (d) charging said legume-containing mixture into a retortable vessel; (e) sealing said retortable vessel; and (f) heating said legume-containing mixture in said sealed retortable vessel in a retort operation carried out at a temperature in the range of from about 110.degree. C. to about 130.degree. C. for a period of time in the range of from about 20 minutes to about 150 minutes, thereby producing a shelf-stable, packaged legume-containing product. The present invention also relates to a shelf-stable, packaged, legume-containing product prepared by the above process.
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Hunt-Wesson, Inc.
Kepplinger Esther M.
Koh Choon P.
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