Manufacture of snack food pellets
AssigneeFrito-Lay Trading Company GmbH
InventorsJames Williams, Marcel Oost Indie, Kal Ezzat, Rachel Mallinder
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a starch-based snack food pellet for manufacturing an expanded snack food, the method comprising the steps of: feeding a first starch ingredient into a cooking device; inputting mechanical and thermal energy into the cooking device so as to cook and gelatinise the first starch ingredient in the cooking device, thereby to provide a processed starch component; adding a potato starch ingredient comprising native potato starch to the processed starch component to provide a starch mixture; and forming the starch mixture into pellets by extrusion. Also disclosed is a starch-based snack food pellet for manufacturing an expanded snack food.
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A method of manufacturing starch-based snack food pellets for manufacturing an expanded snack food, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) feeding a first non-potato starch ingredient into a cooking device;
- (b) inputting mechanical and thermal energy into the cooking device so as to cook and gelatinize the first non-potato starch ingredient in the cooking device, thereby to provide a processed starch component, wherein the processed starch component comprises cereal starch with a gelatinization of from 40 to 80%;
- (c) adding a potato starch ingredient comprising a first ungelatinzed native potato starch to the processed starch component to provide a starch mixture;
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- (d) forming the starch mixture into the starch-based snack food pellets by extrusion,
- wherein the starch mixture of the starch-based snack food pellets comprises from 40% to 70 wt. % of the gelatinized first non-potato starch ingredient and from 10 to 40 wt. % of the first ungelatinized native potato starch.
A method of manufacturing starch-based snack food pellets for manufacturing an expanded snack food, the method comprising the sequential steps of:
- (a) feeding non-potato starch ingredient into a cooking device;
- (b) feeding a first ungelatinized native potato starch into the cooking device, wherein the non-potato starch and the first ungelatinized native potato starch are in a weight ratio of from 1:3 to 4:1;
- (c) inputting mechanical and thermal energy into the cooking device to cook and gelatinize (i) the non-potato starch ingredient in the cooking device to provide a processed starch component and (ii) the first ungelatinized native potato starch to form a gelatinized potato starch;
- (d) adding a potato starch ingredient comprising a second ungelatinized native potato starch to the processed starch component and the gelatinized potato starch to provide a starch mixture;
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- (e) forming the starch mixture into the starch-based snack food pellets by extrusion,
- wherein the starch mixture of the starch-based snack food pellets comprises from 40% to 70 wt. % of the gelatinized first non-potato starch ingredient and from 10 to 40 wt. % of the second ungelatinized native potato starch.
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