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US 11,812,755 B2Granted
Flavour generation in food
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsYvette Fleury Rey, Christina Vafeiadi, Stephane Duboux, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Clementine Tastet, Cassandra Mokdad, Christof Gysler, Carl Erik Hansen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to flavour generation. In particular the invention relates to a method for flavour generation in a heat-treated food product using a prolidase enzyme. The invention also relates to a heat-treated food product prepared according to the method of the invention.
Claims8
A method for flavor generation, the method comprising:
- (a) contacting (1) gluten with (2) a prolyl-specific endopeptidase from Aspergillus niger and (3) a prolidase, at a pH from 5.5 to 7.2 to form a hydrolysed preparation, wherein the prolidase comprises the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO:1;
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- (b) subjecting a food preparation comprising the hydrolysed preparation to heat treatment to obtain a heat-treated food product, wherein the food preparation comprises a reducing sugar that was present in the hydrolysed preparation or added to the hydrolysed preparation, and the prolidase is obtained from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.