Powder composition for an aerated food product
AssigneeFrieslandCampina Nederland B.V.
InventorsAlbert Thijs POORTINGA, Paul Bastiaan VAN SEEVENTER, Luben Nikolaev ARNAUDOV, Simeon Dobrev STOYANOV
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Abstract
The invention relates to a powder composition for preparing a food product, to a method for preparing said powder composition, to a method for preparing a food product from said powder composition, to a food product obtainable by said method, and to a method for keeping gas bubbles in bulk liquid.
Claims23
A powder composition for preparing a food product comprising gas bubbles dispersed in a continuous phase,
- which food product is selected from the group consisting of
- coffee and other coffee-based beverages;
- chocolate milk and other cocoa-based beverages;
- fruit and/or vegetable-based beverages;
- fluid dairy products, other than fluid ice-cream and liquid dairy products labelled as weight management meal replacers;
- dry dairy products, other than dry powder dairy products labelled as weight management meal replacers;
- infant nutrition products;
- bakery and confectionary products;
- toppings and desserts, other than ice-cream;
- animal feeds;
- pet food products;
- clinical nutrition food products (i.e. food products for use in enhancing, maintaining or restoring health and/or prevent a disease, prescribed by a
- health care professional like a physician, nurse, or dietician, and
- destined for and supplied to persons in need thereof);
- the powder composition comprising
- a) a gas release agent in particulate form;
- b) a hydrocolloid in particulate form;
- and
- c) an instant food component in particulate form for one of said food products
- wherein upon reconstitution of the powder composition in an aqueous fluid, the hydrocolloid is reconstituted thereby thickening the fluid to form the continuous phase, gas bubbles are formed from the gas release agent, and formed gas bubbles are entrapped in the continuous phase.
A powder composition for preparing a food product comprising gas bubbles dispersed in a continuous phase, the food product is selected from the group consisting of
- coffee and other coffee-based beverages;
- chocolate milk and other cocoa-based beverages;
- fruit and/or vegetable-based beverages;
- fluid dairy products other than fluid ice-cream and liquid dairy products labelled as weight management meal replacers;
- dry dairy products, other than dry powder dairy products labelled as weight management meal replacers
- infant nutrition products;
- bakery and confectionary products;
- toppings and desserts, other than ice cream;
- animal feeds;
- pet food products;
- clinical nutrition food products (i.e. food products for use in enhancing, maintaining or restoring health and/or prevent a disease, prescribed by
- a health care professional like a physician, nurse, or dietician, and
- destined for and supplied to persons in need thereof;
- the powder composition comprising
- a) 5-95 wt. %. gas release agent in particulate form;
- b) 0.5-5 wt. % xanthan gum,
- c) one or more instant food ingredients for said food products other than the gas release agent and the xanthan gum.
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