Acid-oil dispersion coating for ready-to-eat cereal piece
AssigneePost Consumer Brands, LLC
InventorsKevin A. Cizio, James T. Schultz, Alan B. Erickson
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Abstract
An acid-oil dispersion composition for use in coating a cereal piece. The acid-oil dispersion composition comprising an edible acid particles dispersed in an edible oil component, wherein the acid particles are in a range of about 1 wt % to about 25 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition; and wherein the edible oil component is at an amount that is in a range of about 75 wt % to about 99 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition.
Claims11
A sour-coated cereal piece comprising a cereal piece and a sour coating on at least a portion of the cereal piece, wherein the sour coating comprises a solidified acid-oil dispersion composition that comprises an acid component that is dispersed in an oil component, wherein:
- the acid component comprises particles that comprise one or more edible acids, wherein the acid component has a particle size distribution such that no more than about 1 wt % of the particles are retained on a No. 16 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve and no less than about 95 wt % of the particles pass through a No. 30 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve, and wherein the acid component is at an amount that is in a range of about 1 wt % to about 25 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition;
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- the oil component comprises one or more edible oils/fats, wherein the oil component has a dropping point as determined according to AOCS Cc18-80 that is in a range of about 70° F. to about 150° F., and wherein the oil component is at an amount that is in a range of about 75 wt % to about 99 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition.
A ready-to-eat cereal comprising a multiplicity of sour-coated cereal pieces, wherein each sour-coated cereal piece comprises a cereal piece and a sour coating on at least a portion of the cereal piece, wherein the sour coating comprises a solidified acid-oil dispersion composition that comprises an acid component that is dispersed in an oil component, wherein:
- the acid component comprises particles that comprise one or more edible acids, wherein the acid component has a particle size distribution such that no more than about 1 wt % of the particles are retained on a No. 16 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve and no less than about 95 wt % of the particles pass through a No. 30 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve, and wherein the acid component is at an amount that is in a range of about 1 wt % to about 25 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition;
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- the oil component comprises one or more edible oils/fats, wherein the oil component has a dropping point as determined according to AOCS Cc18-80 that is in a range of about 70° F. to about 150° F., and wherein the oil component is at an amount that is in a range of about 75 wt % to about 99 wt % of the acid-oil dispersion composition.
A ready-to-eat to cereal product comprising
- a cereal piece, and
- a coating disposed over the cereal piece, wherein the coating comprises
- about 75 wt % to about 99 wt % of an oil component phase;
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- particles of one or more edible acids distributed throughout the oil component phase;
- wherein the oil component has a dropping point as determined according to AOCS Cc18-80 that is in a range of about 70° F. to about 150° F.;
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- wherein the acid component has a particle size distribution such that no more than about 1 wt % of the particles are retained on a No. 16 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve and no less than about 95 wt % of the particles pass through a No. 30 U.S.A. Standard Testing Sieve.
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