Dual-spray reduced sugar coating system and method
AssigneeKellanova
InventorsEric Joseph Homan, Tamila Rena Williams, Gabriela Perez-Hernandez
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Abstract
A system and method for applying a reduced sugar coating to a food product is provided. The system uses separate applications (simultaneous or sequential) of a non-sucrose carbohydrate syrup from a first applicator and a sucrose syrup from a second applicator. The dual applications of the syrups are applied without an active drying step between applications. The process results in a coated food product with reduced clumping and a desired crystallized appearance even with the reduced levels of sugar.
Claims7
A system for producing a reduced sugar coated food product having a reduced amount of food product clumping, the system comprising:
- a source of a food product, a first syrup, and a second syrup;
- a coating drum for receiving the food product, the coating drum having a first applicator in a first region and a second applicator in a second region;
- wherein the first applicator is fluidly connected to a source of the first syrup and the second applicator is fluidly connected to a source of the second syrup;
- wherein one of the first syrup and the second syrup is a non-sucrose carbohydrate syrup and the other of the first syrup and the second syrup is a sucrose syrup;
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- wherein a combination of the sucrose syrup and the non-sucrose carbohydrate syrup has a brix of about 60 to about 90 obtained from about 20 to about 50 weight percent sucrose and about 20 to about 50 percent non-sucrose carbohydrates, by weight of the total syrups combined.
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