Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Surface coated – fluid encapsulated – laminated solid... – Isolated whole seed – bean or nut – or material derived therefrom
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-30
2001-05-15
Cano, Milton (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Surface coated, fluid encapsulated, laminated solid...
Isolated whole seed, bean or nut, or material derived therefrom
C426S138000, C426S306000, C426S309000, C426S660000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06231899
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a food product structure with a wafer shell and a moist creamy filling.
Products of the type mentioned above are known in the art, as demonstrated, for example, by the documents EP-A-0 064 155, EP-A-0 083 324 and WO-A-96/28035.
In particular, this last document, after which the preamble of Claim
1
was patterned, describes a semi-cold product which includes a casing formed by two wafer half-shells enclosing a mass of hydrated, or substantially hydrated, creamy filling. A soft toffee core is buried in the mass of filling and the wafer casing is preferably entirely coated, in a layer of chocolate-based coating for example, possibly with the total or partial addition of chopped nuts and other items or other chopped items.
When manufacturing this type of product, it is necessary to take into account the intrinsic criticality of the combined use of a layer of wafer with a hydrated mass (or a substantially hydrated mass, that is liable to have a certain moisture content). The arrangement described in the last cited international Patent Application tackles and solves the problem caused by the fact that the intrinsic moisture of the filling mass tends to seep towards the wafer shell, leading to such negative phenomena as softening, mould, fermentation processes and the like. In particular, this result is achieved while placing the hydrated creamy filling (constituted, for example, by a milk-based cream) in direct contact with the wafer shell. This is achieved without providing any intermediate insulating layer, but by providing, instead, a soft toffee (mou) core in the filling mass, and formulating the constituent wafer, filling and soft toffee in such a way that controlled movement of moisture takes place between the three items, thereby ensuring the desired structural consistency in the finished product. This result is further improved by ensuring that the wafer shell forms a closed casing around the filling mass in which the soft toffee is embedded, and by entirely covering the outer surface of the said shell with a coating mass (enrobing) of a material (typically chocolate), possibly with the addition of chopped nuts.
It is also important, when manufacturing such products, to prevent the wafer component from playing too great a part in the final organoleptic profile of the product. In view of the aforementioned application, the arrangement described in WO-A-97/48282 aims to produce items having a very thin wafer with a shaped section (which makes it possible to manufacture a closed casing surrounding the mass of filling).
The object of the present invention is to improve further the arrangements described above, in particular with regard to the possibility of increasing the presence in the product of creamy, paste-like or even liquid components, with the additional possibility of differentiating—if this is seen as useful or advantageous—between the organoleptic properties of these components.
According to the invention, this object is achieved by providing a food product structure having the additional characteristics described in the Claims which follow.
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Cano Milton
Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
Soremartec S.A.
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