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US 12,702,145 B2Granted
Composition and use of the composition as an edible coating or insertion for cold or frozen products
AssigneeCargill, Incorporated
InventorsKaren Tatsume Hirata, Patricia Paixão Martins
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Abstract
It is herein described a cocoa based coating composition comprising a fat portion, said composition being liquid at room temperature, but rapidly solidifying when in contact with said cold or frozen food products, forming a cocoa coating or cocoa insertions, such as cocoa granules. It is also described the use of said composition as coating or insertion for cold or frozen food products.
Claims18
A composition for coating a cold or frozen food product, comprising:
- from 33 to 59 wt. % of body agents, wherein the body agents comprise non-fat solids, wherein the non-fat solids are selected from the group consisting of a sweetener, a dairy compound, cocoa powder and any mixtures of two or more thereof;
- from 3 to 14 wt. % of one or more flavoring agents;
- and
- from 38 to 54 wt. % of a fat portion, the fat portion comprising:
- a. at least two rheology agents comprising palm olein and cottonseed oil, and optionally, anhydrous milk fat, soy oil, high oleic sunflower oil, cocoa butter, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
- b. one or more stabilizing agents that are selected from the group consisting of sorbitan tristearate (STS) and/or sorbitan monostearate;
- and
- c. one or more emulsifiers that are selected from the group consisting of soy lecithin, sunflower lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), super PGPR, ammonium phosphatide, mono and di glycerides, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
- and
- wherein the composition is liquid at room temperature and the composition comprises from 24 to 30 wt. % palm olein and from 14 to 22 wt. % cottonseed oil .
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A method of forming a cold or frozen product, wherein the method comprises:
- producing a cold or frozen product;
- and
- coating on or inserting in the product a composition comprising:
- from 33 to 59 wt. % of body agents, wherein the body agents comprise non-fat solids, wherein the non-fat solids are selected from the group consisting of a sweetener, a dairy compound, cocoa powder and any mixtures of two or more thereof;
- from 3 to 14 wt. % of one or more flavoring agents;
- and
- from 38 to 54 wt. % of a fat portion, the fat portion comprising:
- a. at least two rheology agents comprising palm olein and cottonseed oil, and optionally, anhydrous milk fat, soy oil, high oleic sunflower oil, cocoa butter, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
- b. one or more stabilizing agents selected from the group consisting of sorbitan tristearate (STS) and/or sorbitan monostearate;
- and
- c. one or more emulsifiers selected from the group consisting of soy lecithin, sunflower lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), super PGPR, ammonium phosphatide, mono and di glycerides, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
- wherein the composition is liquid at room temperature, and the composition comprises from 24 to 30 wt. % palm olein and from 14 to 22 wt. % cottonseed oil.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.