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US 12,369,598 B2Granted
Chocolate replicas produced from individual components
AssigneeVoyage Foods, Inc.
InventorsKelsey Tenney, Adam Maxwell, Ethan Charles Beswick, Samuel Ryo, Daniel Assad Saad, Alec Kremonic Lee, Mardonn Carl Chua, Brandon Head
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Abstract
Materials and methods for producing chocolate replicas from individual components are provided herein.
Claims16
A method for preparing a chocolate replica from plant seeds, wherein the method comprises:
- treating the plant seeds with a caustic agent and water at a pressure of 0-10 bar, to generate a preparation having a pH of about 7.0 to about 10.5;
- drying the preparation;
- combining the dried preparation with one or more plant oils to generate a mixture;
- milling the mixture until the particles have a size less than about 75 microns;
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- adding at least one amino acid, at least one sugar, or at least one amino acid and at least one sugar to the milled mixture to yield a chocolate replica;
- wherein the plant seeds are selected from apple seeds, breadfruit seeds, breadnut seeds, cashew seeds, citrus fruits seeds, colocynth seeds, date seeds, date palm seeds, quava seeds, grape seeds, kokum seeds, luffa seeds, mango seeds, moringa seeds, melon seeds, olive seeds, papaya seeds, pumpkin seeds, squash seeds, gourd seeds, sapucaia seeds, Spanish lime seeds, seje seeds, tomato seeds, walnut seeds, watermelon seeds, almond kernels, camelina seeds, cashew nuts, castor seeds, chia seeds, cottonseed hulls, corozo seeds, macadamia, maize germ, oil palm kernels, rapeseed hulls, rapeseeds, safflower seeds, sal seeds, soybean seeds, sesame seeds, shea kernels, sickle pods, sunflower hulls, sunflower seeds, soybean hulls, and combinations thereof.
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A method for preparing a solid chocolate replica from a plant-based substrate, wherein the method comprises:
- treating a plant-based substrate with a caustic agent and water at a pressure of 0-10 bar to generate a preparation having a pH of about 7.0 to about 10.5;
- drying the preparation, wherein the drying comprises tray drying, spray drying, drum drying, falling film evaporation, freeze drying, vacuum drying, or a combination thereof;
- roasting the dried preparation;
- grinding the roasted preparation to generate particles;
- combining the ground roasted preparation with one or more plant oils, sugars, salts, seed meals or seed flours, amino acids, isolated VOCs, or isolated non-volatile compounds, to generate a slurry;
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- solidifying the slurry to yield a solid chocolate replica;
- wherein the plant-based substrate is derived from oil plant seeds, fruit or vegetable seeds, or a combination thereof, and
- wherein the oil plant seeds, fruit or vegetable seeds, or combination thereof are selected from apple seeds, breadfruit seeds, breadnut seeds, cashew seeds, citrus fruits seeds, colocynth seeds, date seeds, date palm seeds, quava seeds, grape seeds, kokum seeds, luffa seeds, mango seeds, moringa seeds, melon seeds, olive seeds, papaya seeds, pumpkin seeds, squash seeds, gourd seeds, sapucaia seeds, Spanish lime seeds, seje seeds, tomato seeds, walnut seeds, watermelon seeds, almond kernels, camelina seeds, cashew nuts, castor seeds, chia seeds, cottonseed hulls, corozo seeds, macadamia, maize germ, oil palm kernels, rapeseed hulls, rapeseeds, safflower seeds, sal seeds, soybean seeds, sesame seeds, shea kernels, sickle pods, sunflower hulls, sunflower seeds, soybean hulls, and combinations thereof.
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A method for preparing a plant-based solid substrate derived from grape seeds, wherein the method comprises:
- mixing the grape seeds with a caustic agent and water at a pressure of 0-10 bar, to generate a preparation having a pH of about 7.0 to about 10.5;
- separating the preparation into a solid fraction from a liquid fraction;
- separately roasting the solid fraction and the liquid fraction;
- grinding the roasted solid fraction;
- combining the ground roasted solid fraction with the roasted liquid fraction and one or more plant oils to generate a mixture;
- milling the mixture to generate particles having a size of less than about 75 microns;
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- sieving the particles to yield the solid substrate.
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