Packaged yogurt-based food product and method for packaging the yogurt-based food product
AssigneeGeneral Mills, Inc.
InventorsRob G Clements, Paul Allen Grube, William R Lloyd, III, John Thomas Lund, David L Persells, Terry W Ziegler
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Abstract
A yogurt-based food product is packaged in a container, including a bottom wall and a sidewall, by depositing a mix-in in a center of the bottom wall and then driving the mix-in from the center of the bottom wall to the sidewall with a blast of gas. Afterwards, a dairy or plant-based product is deposited in the container. The mix-in is in contact with the bottom wall and the sidewall, and a height of the mix-in is greater at the sidewall than at a center point of the bottom wall.
Claims15
A packaged food product comprising:
- a container including a bottom wall and a sidewall;
- a mix-in located in the container, wherein the mix-in is in contact with the bottom wall and the sidewall, the mix-in has a viscosity wherein the mix-in in contact with the sidewall remains in contact with the sidewall, a height of the mix-in is greater at the sidewall than at a center point of the bottom wall, the mix-in does not cover the center point of the bottom wall, and the height of the mix-in decreases from the sidewall toward the center point of the bottom wall;
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- a dairy or plant-based product located in the container and disposed upon the mix-in,
- wherein the container is fully or partially transparent or translucent from the bottom wall to the height of the mix-in at the sidewall.
A packaged food product comprising:
- a container including a bottom wall and a sidewall;
- a mix-in located in the container, wherein the mix-in is in the shape of a torus and in contact with the bottom wall and the sidewall, a height of the mix-in is greater at the sidewall than at a center point of the bottom wall, and a majority of the mix-in is located at an intersection of the bottom wall and the sidewall;
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- a dairy or plant-based product located in the container and disposed upon the mix-in in the shape of a torus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.