Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
Patent
1998-03-16
1999-12-07
Bhat, Nina
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
426107, 426118, 426121, 426124, 426126, 426238, 426309, 426395, 426401, 426413, A23K 1175, A21D 1002, A23B 300
Patent
active
05997916&
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are microwave popcorn articles comprising any conventional microwave popcorn bag, and a food charge disposed therein comprising kernel popcorn, fat, salt and sufficient amounts of a calcium ingredient to provide a total calcium content of about 360 to 3600 mg per 100 grams of unpopped popcorn. Preferably the salt and calcium ingredients are essentially characterized by having a mean particle size of less than 25 .mu.m. Methods of preparing such microwave popcorn articles are disclosed wherein some of the salt and/or calcium ingredient is added to the fat slurry while the balance is added in particulate form in a separate step after the fat and kernel popcorn have been added to the bag.
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Dickerson Pamela J.
Glass Brian E.
Bhat Nina
General Mills Inc.
Lillehaugen L. MeRoy
O'Toole John A.
Taylor Douglas J.
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