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US 12,336,547 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.
Claims11
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 aqueous ethanol comprises about 51 wt. % of ethanol;
- (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 greater than 120° F. to 172° F. for a duration of less than 5 minutes to produce a bitter-blocking agent;
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- (d) combining the bitter-blocking agent with an edible food in an amount effective to modify, reduce or block bitterness in the edible food,
- wherein the cucumber is from the Cucurbitaceae plant family.
3 more elements
A process for making a bitter-blocking agent, comprising:
- (a) blending at high shear a mixture of cucumber and aqueous ethanol comprising about 51 wt. % of ethanol, thereby forming a blended stream containing liquid and cucumber solids;
- (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 greater than 120° F. to 155° F. to produce the bitter-blocking agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.