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
1988-11-15
1991-07-23
Yeung, George
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,...
426243, A21D 200
Patent
active
050342410
ABSTRACT:
A microwave oat cereal, a method of its manufacture, and a method of its consumer-preparation is disclosed.
A single serving of the product of this invention can be fully cooked in a microwave oven in a single serving bowl without foam-over. The cereal comprises a mixture of an oat cereal pieces, such as oat flakes, or oat bran, and a small amount of lecithin, preferably in the form of a powder and preferably in the form of discrete solid encapsulated lecithin. The lecithin is present in an amount effective to prevent foaming out of a single serving bowl when a single serving of the mixture is cooked with water in a microwave oven. Also, the lecithin may be affixed to the surface of the oat cereal such as by spraying, or by allowing encapsulated lecithin to contact the cereal while the cereal is at temperatures above the melting point of the encapsulated lecithin.
Lecithin is preferably encapsulated in a triglyceride which is solid at room temperature, and liquid at microwave oat-cooking temperatures.
The mixture of oats and the lecithin powder is particularly suitable for individual serving packaging, and the mixtures in which the lecithin is bonded to the surface of the oat cereal are particularly well suited for bulk packaging, but can be used in individual serving packaging, as well.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2632705 (1953-03-01), Scharf
patent: 4861614 (1989-08-01), Seaborne
"Commercial Lecithin Products: Food Use of Soybean Lecithin"; W. E. Prosise; Lecithins, edited by B. Szuhaj & G. List, published by the American Oil Chemist' Society; pp. 163-182 (1985).
Keyser William L.
Medrow Ronald K.
Milling Thomas
Johnson Lars S.
O'Halloran Joseph P.
The Quaker Oats Co.
Yeung George
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