Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Edible casing or container
Patent
1995-11-13
1998-04-07
Weinstein, Steven
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Edible casing or container
426 92, 426 96, 426140, 426652, 426653, A23L 1221, A23L 148
Patent
active
057361800
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to edible wrapping foils on the basis of collagen for foodstuffs.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Edible flat collagen foils are known per se and are used to a large extent world-wide for wrapping food, such as hams. The production of collagen foils is described in DE-PS 642 922, for example. The use as wrapping for foodstuffs is known from, among others, DE-PS 19 45 527, and the use for wrapping meat products from U.S. Pat. No. 3,014,024. In what follows, collagen is understood to mean native and modified collagens as well as collagens whose solubility has been altered by enzyme treatment, for example; such collagens are described in, among others, DE-PS 17 67 613 and 19 60 395 or in U.S. Pat. No. 3,664,849.
It is also already known, for example from DE-PS 970 263, to provide wrapping materials for foodstuffs with soluble food coloring and flavoring, wherein it is intended for the flavor and the coloring to enter the foodstuffs wrapped in the material. In accordance with this publication it is possible to pull a sausage casing, for example, through an aqueous glycerine solution containing a soluble coloring for foodstuffs and a flavoring, such as alcoholic extracts of garlic or onions, or so-called liquid smoke. Thus the sausage casings are impregnated with soluble flavor and coloring materials, which are transferred to the wrapped foodstuffs during storage. The disadvantage with these known methods, however, is that it is only possible to transfer certain flavor variations by impregnating the wrapping foil with flavorings, because some soluble extracts of spices clearly differ in the olfactory range from freshly processed whole spices and, something which is even more important, as a rule such extracts are not stable in storage because a portion of the volatile components evaporates during storage and in this way the taste is changed, to which is added that spice extracts, whether alcoholic or aqueous, are sensitive to oxidation and temperature. The finer the spice preparations are dissolved, or the larger the area over which alcoholic or aqueous extracts are distributed, the quicker the change of the flavors because of evaporation or chemical changes, because of which the olfactory impression is changed, i.e. clearly worsens as a rule. Therefore the addition of soluble flavorings to wrapping foils which was customary up to now has not had any satisfactory results. On the other hand attempts to coat foils with spices in particle form later have also not had any success, since such coatings can only be applied with the aid of a binder or adhesive and furthermore larger and mostly sharp-edged spice particles often damage the relatively thin foils, particularly if the foils are stored in the form of rolls.
There is therefore a need for wrapping materials for foodstuffs of the most different types, which are at the same time suitable as carriers of flavorings and, if required, colorings.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with the invention, edible wrapping foils on the basis of collagen for foodstuffs are therefore proposed which are distinguished in that they contain finely divided spices as an integrated component.
It has be found in a surprising manner that the disadvantages connected with the subsequent sprinkling of finished foils or when using soluble flavoring extracts can be avoided, if collagen foils, known per se, which contain finely divided spices as an integral component of the foil are used as the base material for the wrapping. Integral component of the foil is understood to mean that the spice particles are embedded in the collagen foil and are at least partially enclosed in it. The preponderant part of the entire surface of the spices should preferably be inside the collagen layer of the foil which, however, does not preclude that later a portion of the particles is only partially embedded in the part of the foil facing the foodstuffs. In a preferred embodiment the wrapping foil has an essentially closed skin on its surface which later wil
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Keil Joachim
Maser Franz
Peiffer Bernd
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