Cheese product with carrageenan casing
AssigneeHl Commodity Foods Ltd
InventorsKevin Philp, Karen Anne O'Callaghan
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Abstract
A cheese product with a carrageenan casing comprises soft cheese encapsulated in a casing comprising carrageenan. The cheese product can be manufactured by forming a coating comprising carrageenan around a soft cheese, for example by co-extruding the soft cheese within a liquid coating material comprising carrageenan such that the coating material forms a tubular coating around the cheese. The cheese product can be used to form the stuffing in a stuffed-crust pizza.
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A cheese product comprising a soft cheese encapsulated in a tubular casing, the casing comprising sodium kappa carrageenan, wherein the casing breaks down and completely disintegrates leaving no trace visible to the naked eye, when heated, wrapped in bread dough in a pizza crust, at a temperature of 200 degrees C. for 5 minutes.
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