| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 426559000 | Puffed | 14 |
| 20080248179 | DIRECT EXPANDED SNACK MADE WITH PEANUT FLOUR AND METHOD FOR MAKING - A method for making a direct expanded snack piece shaped like a peanut is disclosed. Ingredients comprising peanut flour, ground corn product, rice flour and oat flour are introduced into an extruder. The ingredients are hydrated and extruded through an orifice adapted to produce a puffed snack piece shaped like a peanut and cut into puffed snacks. The puffed snacks are dried and seasoned. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080248180 | EXTRUDED LEGUME SNACK FOOD - An extruded legume snack food comprising an extruded puff product based on a dried legume powder having a shape that is a facsimile of the natural starting material, such as a pea pod. A legume powder is mixed with a starch, extruded, and then shaped. The extrudate can be shaped by a number of forming devices or, in an alternative embodiment, by the orifice shape of an extrusion die when the extrudate is face cut from the extruder. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20100009055 | MOLDED EXPANDED PELLET PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING - A method for making a snack product having a target shape from expandable pellets is disclosed. The snack product is formed into a target shape by expanding the pellets inside a mold. As the pellets expand inside the mold, the mold walls restrain the pellets expansion in the direction normal to the mold wall surface. The pellets also adhere to one another as they expand. An edible binder material can be included to facilitate such adherence. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100080883 | PRODUCTION OF LOW CALORIE, EXTRUDED, EXPANDED FOODS HAVING A HIGH FIBER CONTENT - An extruded, directly expanded, high fiber reduced calorie food product, such as a ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal or sweet or savory snack, is produced at high production rates without substantial loss of extrusion functionality and extrudability by replacing a substantial portion of at least one flour with a gelatinized, enzyme-resistant starch type III ingredient or bulking agent as a reduced-calorie, high fiber flour replacer. The resistant starch type III ingredient or bulking agent contains an enzyme-resistant starch type III having a melting point with an endothermic peak temperature of at least about 140° C., and may have a water-holding capacity of less than 3 grams water per gram of the starch-based bulking agent. The total dietary fiber retention of the gelatinized, starch-based bulking agent may be at least about 90% by weight after the extrusion using a die temperature of least about 100° C., and a die pressure of at least about 150 psig. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100151105 | GRAIN POWDER COMPOSITION - The invention is a grain powder composition containing (A) wheat flour, (B) an gelatinized modified starch, and (C) wheat protein, wherein a mass ratio of (A)/(B) is 55/45 to 85/15, and a content of (C) is 0.5 to 4 parts by mass with respect to the total 100 parts by mass of (A) and (B). | 06-17-2010 |
| 20120015091 | DIRECT EXPANDED SNACK MADE WITH PEANUT FLOUR AND METHOD FOR MAKING - A method for making a direct expanded snack piece shaped like a peanut is disclosed. Ingredients comprising peanut flour, ground corn product, rice flour and oat flour are introduced into an extruder. The ingredients are hydrated and extruded through an orifice adapted to produce a puffed snack piece shaped like a peanut and cut into puffed snacks. The puffed snacks are dried and seasoned. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120040072 | Waxy Corn Starch And Whole Grain Cereals - An improved cereal flour mixture, production method, and resulting cereal are provided. The cereal contains whole grain and can be extruded. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120276268 | PRODUCTION OF LOW CALORIE, EXTRUDED, EXPANDED FOODS HAVING A HIGH FIBER CONTENT - Extruded, directly expanded, high fiber reduced calorie food products, such as a ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal or sweet or savory snack, are produced at high production rates without substantial loss of extrusion functionality and extrudability by replacing a substantial portion of at least one flour with a gelatinized, enzyme-resistant starch type III ingredient or bulking agent as a reduced-calorie, high fiber flour replacer. The resistant starch type III ingredient or bulking agent contains an enzyme-resistant starch type III having a melting point with an endothermic peak temperature of at least about 140° C., and may have a water-holding capacity of less than 3 grams water per gram of the starch-based bulking agent. The total dietary fiber retention of the gelatinized, starch-based bulking agent may be at least about 90% by weight after extrusion using a die temperature of least about 100° C., and a die pressure of at least about 150 psig. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130040034 | LOW-FAT CAKE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a low-fat cake having improved quality, wherein the flavor, full-bodied taste (richness), softness, swellability, and baked color which are derived from of fats and oils are not at all impaired even if the amount of the fats and oils is reduced, and a method of making the same. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130236622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A LOW DENSITY WAFER PRODUCT - The present invention relates to the production of wafers and more particularly to the use of a batter aerating system to obtain wafers with an effective density of at most 0.16 g/cm3, and with sufficient strength to be able to remove them from the wafer baking plates. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130251877 | SNACK PRODUCTS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - Snack products and methods for producing snack products comprising a mixture of an expandable base product and one or more relatively non-expandable inclusions. The base product may comprise a pelletized or non-pelletized wheat, potato, corn, rice, other flours, starches, and grains, vegetables, and/or mixes thereof. The inclusions may comprise one or more types of herbs and spices, vegetables, fruits, meats, beans, grains, or other ingredients. The mixture is processed using an expansion machine (or “puffing machine”) that is operative to cook and expand the mixture to form a snack product, such as a chip, cracker, cake, or the like. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130287922 | SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRUDED FOOD PRODUCT - An expanded food product made using supercritical fluid extrusion is disclosed. The food product comprises particular characteristics that demonstrate a light, porous, crispy texture has been obtained. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140314932 | EXPANDED PRODUCTS WITH HIGH PROTEIN CONTENT - High protein expanded products are produced by extrusion with unique blends of ingredients, such as wheat protein isolates, modified wheat starch, salts, gums and moisture. The mixture is extruded in a twin-screw extruder with the temperatures in the range of 50 to 140° C., screw speeds of 250 to 450 rpm and with a back pressure of 350 to 1200 psi for different recipes. A range of expanded wheat crisps and other expanded products with wheat protein contents ranging from 30 to 90% are obtained from this process. The expanded products have good cell structure with varying cell sizes when viewed under a microscope. This process can be used to develop a varied range of products such as, wheat crisps, wheat curls, wheat loops etc. The products may be used in nutritional or health bars and other comestible having a high protein and low carbohydrate content. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150289546 | PUFFED SNACK FOOD AND INFUSED PUFFED SNACK FOOD - Provided is a cylindrical puffed snack food comprising a plurality of inner rope parts and a plurality of outer rope parts, | 10-15-2015 |
