Refrigerated Pourable Dessert Liquid Product Concentrate
AssigneeRich Products Corporation
InventorsArnaud Paul Serge Chamoin, Arturo Janovitz Klapp, Alberto Roca Mayorga
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a liquid food product and method for manufacturing the liquid product having an increase refrigerator life and ambient temperature shelf life without having to be UHT processed. The invention is also directed to a high solids content pourable dessert base product and method for manufacturing the product having at least 45-75% of total solids content.
Claims26
A liquid dessert concentrate that can be stored in a non-refrigerated environment for at least 5 days without spoilage comprising by weight percent:
- Water
- 10-60%
- Salt
- up to 8%
- Emulsifier
- up to 5%
- Stabilizer
- up to 5%
- Dairy/Protein
- 3-25%
- Sweetener
- 1-65%
- Humectant
- up to 7%
- Oil/Fat
- 2-25%
- Coloring
- up to 1%
- Flavor
- up to 5%
- Preservative
- up to 1%,
- and wherein said liquid dessert concentrate is homogenized, pasteurized, or combinations thereof and has a water activity of less than 0.95.
The method for forming a liquid dessert concentrate that can be stored in a non-refrigerated environment for at least 5 days without spoilage comprising the steps of:
- a. mixing together water, protein/dairy, salt and optionally one or more additives selected from the group consisting of monoglyceride, diglyceride, flavor, gum and carrageenan, said mixing at a temperature of 35-90° C. for about 0.5-20 minutes to form a first solution;
- b. mixing sweetener, oil/fat and optionally one or more secondary additives selected from the group consisting of emulsifier, stabilizer, humectant, color, flavor, vitamins, and preservative to said first solution to form a second solution, said mixing at a temperature of 40-90° C. for about 0.5-40 minutes to form a second solution;
- c. optionally homogenizing, pasteurizing or combinations thereof of said second solution;
- d. cooling said second solution to a temperature of 0-30° C.;
- e. stirring second solution for at least about 0.1 minutes to form said liquid dessert concentrate;
- and,
- f. packaging said liquid dessert concentrate.
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