All natural fruit snack and method of manufacturing an all natural fruit snack
AssigneeThe Promotion In Motion Companies, Inc.
InventorBasant K Dwivedi
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Abstract
A fruit snack manufactured, in summary, by removing moisture from commercially available juice concentrates (e.g., containing about 30% moisture) by heating for a short time the juice concentrate and vacuuming away excess moisture to produce a fruit juice concentrate with about a 15 to 20% moisture content, mixing the reduced moisture content fruit juice concentrate with fruit purees and gelling agents, preferably both pectin and gelatin, to produce a cooked mass, and depositing the cooked mass in a Mogul machine to produce the molded fruit snack.
Claims11
A process of manufacturing a fruit snack product, comprising the steps of:
- heating fruit juice concentrate having substantially a 30% moisture content,
- vacuuming moisture from the heated fruit juice concentrate;
- mixing the heated and vacuumed fruit juice concentrate with a fruit puree;
- mixing the heated and vacuumed fruit juice concentrate and fruit purees with a gelling agent to produce a mixture of the heated and vacuumed fruit juice concentrate, the fruit purees and the gelling agent;
- heating the mixture;
- vacuuming excess moisture from the heated mixture to produce a 15% to 20% moisture content, and
- depositing the heated and vacuumed mixture in a Mogul machine to produce the fruit snack product,
- wherein the fruit snack product consists of the fruit juice concentrate to obtain a moisture content of substantially 20%, the fruit puree, tri-sodium citrate, gelatin, pectin, citric acid, natural flavor, natural color and vitamin C.
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