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US 12,389,916 B2Granted
Flour- and meal-based food products comprising insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan
AssigneeNutrition & Biosciences USA 4, Inc.
InventorsDouglas J. Adelman, Natnael Behabtu
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are food and food dough comprising at least flour and/or meal, and insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan. Further disclosed are methods of producing such food and food dough.
Claims20
A method of producing a food dough, said method comprising:
- mixing at least (i) flour, (ii) an aqueous composition, (iii) sucrose, and (iv) a glucosyltransferase enzyme that synthesizes insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan, whereby a food dough is produced, wherein insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan is produced in the food dough, and wherein at least 80% of the glycosidic linkages of the insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan are alpha-1,3 linkages.
A food or food dough comprising at least (i) flour and (ii) insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan, wherein at least 80% of the glycosidic linkages of the insoluble alpha-1,3-glucan are alpha-1,3 linkages.
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