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US 2006/0051460 A1Published application
Thickening agent and process for thickening
AssigneeUnilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsIngrid Appelqvist, Jadwiga Bialek, Caroline Watson
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for thickening a product by adding a mixture of PME-deactivated and non-PME deactivated vegetables or fruits to the product, as well as to a product and a thickening agent comprising that mixture and their preparation.
Claims15
A process for thickening a liquid or pourable product comprising the steps of
- i) preparing a first and a second portion of one or more PME-comprising fruits or vegetables;
- ii) PME-deactivating the first portion;
- iii) combining the first and the second portion in a weight ratio of 1:9 to 9:1 to form a fruit or vegetable mixture;
- iv) incorporating the fruit or vegetable mixture in the product to be thickened,
- wherein the fruits or vegetables are comminuted at one or more of steps i)-iii), and wherein the fruits are selected from bananas, apples, oranges, pineapples, edible berries, cherries or mixtures thereof and wherein the vegetables are selected from the group consisting of root vegetables, stem vegetables, leafstalk vegetables, bulb vegetables, immature flower vegetables, leaf vegetables, tuber vegetables, bud vegetables seed vegetables and mixtures thereof.
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A thickening agent comprising a fruit or vegetable mixture of two portions of one or more PME-comprising fruits or vegetables, said thickening agent being obtainable by a process comprising the steps of
- i) preparing a first and a second portion of the fruits or vegetables;
- ii) PME-deactivating the first portion;
- iii) combining the first and the second portion in a weight ratio of from 1:9 to 9:1 to form the fruit or vegetable mixture;
- wherein the fruits or vegetables are comminuted at one or more of steps i)-iii), and wherein the fruits selected from bananas, apples, oranges, pineapples, edible berries, cherries or mixtures thereof and wherein the vegetables are selected from the group consisting of root vegetables, stem vegetables, leafstalk vegetables, bulb vegetables, immature flower vegetables, leaf vegetables, tuber vegetables, bud vegetables, seed vegetables and mixtures thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.