Increased dietary fiber method and treatment for processed foods

A method for treating high fiber processed foods to increase ingredient and mixture pliability for mixing, blending and forming, comprising:

• heating liquid soluble fiber, flavorings and binding agents ingredients before mixing to allow for thoroughly combining with other ingredients;
• maintaining the heated temperature of the combined ingredients during progressive mixture formulation;
• keeping the complete mixture of the ingredients warm to increase pliability during forming of the complete mixture into the product base shapes;
• cutting and forming immediately the warm formed complete mixture into the desired finished product size and shape;
• and;
• reducing the temperature of the finished product before a packaging process.

A method for adding fiber to nutrition/protein bar food products to increase dietary fiber content, comprising:

• formulating specific nutrition and protein bar treatment ingredient combinations that include liquid soluble fibers to bind the water and to control water activity (aw);
• heating flavorings to control pliability for mixing with sweetener ingredients;
• mixing the heated flavorings and the sweetener ingredients to produce a flavored sweetener mixture;
• heating liquid soluble fiber ingredients to control pliability;
• combining and mixing the heated flavored sweetener mixture and the heated liquid soluble fiber ingredients to produce a high fiber sweetener mixture;
• heating binding agents to coat dry ingredients;
• dry mixing dry ingredients and protein powders to thoroughly mix the ingredients before coating;
• coating the mixed dry ingredients with the heated binding agents to create a coated dry ingredients mixture;
• blending the heated coated dry ingredients mixture with the heated high fiber IMO sweetener mixture in a controlled process to avoid over mixing to prevent clumping;
• combining additives food ingredients into the blended heated coated dry ingredients mixture with the heated high fiber sweetener mixture to produce the complete nutrition/protein bar mixture;
• keeping the mixture warm to roll the heated mixture through a forming device;
• cutting or forming immediately the warm rolled mixture into strips;
• cutting the warm mixture strips into the desired bar length;
• and
• cooling the finished bar length servings during process transit to a packaging process.