Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Patent
1994-02-22
1995-11-28
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
73 73, 99453, 99468, 99486, 426582, A23C 1900, G01N 2200
Patent
active
054705959
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for processing cheese. The method comprises the steps of blending ground cheese with additional ingredients to form a blended cheese material, and cooking and then cooling that cheese material. The method further comprises the steps of measuring a moisture content of the blended cheese material, generating a signal representing that moisture content, and adjusting the moisture content of the blended cheese material to a preset level in response to the generated signal. The moisture content of the cheese product may be measured at any appropriate stage of the processing line. Preferably, the moisture content of the cheese material is measured by transmitting microwave signals across the cheese material, and measuring the phase shift in the transmitted microwave signals. Also, preferably, the moisture content of the cheese material is measured, and any necessary adjustments made, after that material has been cooked and cooled.
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Anbarci Ahmet
Kopp Gabriele M.
Laudenbach Erich
Hill Joyce P.
Kraft General Foods R&D, Inc.
Marcoux Thomas A.
Savoie Thomas R.
Yeung George
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