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US 11,490,632 B2Granted
Bitter-blocking agent and process for making same
AssigneeTastes Natural, LLC
InventorJoshua V. Young
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Abstract
A liquid edible dip that includes a first lactose-based composition, a second lactose-based composition, at least one spice, and a cucumber extract based bitter-blocking agent that can block the bitter tastes present in certain edible foods. The cucumber extract based bitter-blocking agent can modify, reduce, or block the bitter taste present in some edible foods. The first lactose-based composition may be a strained yogurt and the second lactose-based composition may be an evaporated milk powder.
Claims4
A process comprising:
- (a) blending at high shear a mixture of cucumber and aqueous ethanol, thereby forming a blended stream containing liquid and cucumber solids, wherein the cucumber is from the Cucurbitaceae plant family;
- (b) filtering the mixture from step (a) to separate a liquid filtrate from the cucumber solids;
- (c) heating the filtrate from step (b) at a temperature above 120° F. to produce a bitter-blocking agent;
- (d) combining the bitter-blocking agent with at least one of a first lactose-based composition selected from milk, yogurt, cream, condensed milk, ricotta or cheese, and a second lactose-based composition selected from milk powder, milk, whey, condensed milk, cream, or sour cream, thereby forming a bitter-blocking dip,
- wherein the bitter-blocking agent is present in an amount from 0.1 wt. % to 5 wt % based on the total weight of the bitter-blocking dip.
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