Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Surface coating of a solid food with a liquid
Patent
1986-08-19
1987-07-14
Jones, Raymond N.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Surface coating of a solid food with a liquid
426510, 426640, A23L 1212
Patent
active
046801901
ABSTRACT:
Process for treating relatively light-colored dates grown domestically to impart thereto the relatively darker appearance, the flavor, the soft-chewy texture and the shelf-stability of imported dates grown in the Middle East region. The process involves steaming domestic dates at a temperature of at least 175.degree. F. and for a period of time which is sufficient to darken the domestic dates throughout to substantially the same darkness as that of imparted dates. The steamed domestic dates are then dried to provide shelf-stable, treated dates. At no time before or during the process is a liquefied composition containing water and an effective amount of at least one saccharide sugar sweetening agent applied to or contacted with the domestic dates. The size and shape of the shelf-stable, treated dates are substantially the same as the size and shape of the starting domestic dates. Domestic dates are generally of the sucrose-type dates, whereas the imported dates are generally of the inverted-sugar type dates.
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Spanier Henry C.
Spiel Albert
Cintins Marianne M.
Jones Raymond N.
Kornutik Richard
Nabisco Brands
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