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US 12,582,131 B2Granted
Method for the rapid osmotic drying of food
AssigneeTexas Tech University System
InventorRichard Schlomer Meyer
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Abstract
The present invention includes a method and food product made by at least partially enclosing a food product with a water-permeable membrane; and contacting a brine or sugar solution with a water activity sufficiently high to draw water molecules across the water-permeable membrane and away from the food product to preserve the food.
Claims11
A method for preserving a food product comprising:
- at least partially enclosing a food product with a water-permeable membrane;
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- contacting the water-permeable membrane enclosing the food product with a brine solution, a sugar solution, or both the brine solution and sugar solution having a water activity sufficiently high to draw water molecules across the water-permeable membrane and away from the food product to preserve the food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.