Process for preparing a corn fluor-based product preservative free in a retortable packaging and resulting product
AssigneeProductos Verde Valle, S.A. de C.V.
InventorsJamne Alejandra PONCE SIMENTAL, Elvia VILLARREAL FLORES, Anton Leonard SCHORNO
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Abstract
A process for producing a corn flour-based food product preservative free in a retortable packaging, which comprises preparing a mixture of corn flour and a fatty component, and adding to said mixture a meat product or stew and other minor ingredients. The prepared mixture is added to a sterilizable pouch which is sealed and subjected to a sterilization process including a heating, sterilization or holding and a cooling stage, and under conditions of determined pressure and times.
Claims18
A process for preparing a corn flour-based food product comprising the steps of:
- hydrating a corn flour component by up to 70% maximum at a temperature low enough to avoid acidification of a resultant mass, wherein said mass contains from 10 to 30% of other starch components;
- stirring or mixing a fatty component to obtain a spongy (snow do) texture by keeping its temperature below room temperature and preferably below a melting point of the fatty component;
- incorporating the hydrated corn flour component into the fatty component;
- said fatty component is present in 5 to 20% of the total composition;
- incorporating minor ingredients such as sweeteners, flavorings, colorants, fermenting agents, among others;
- incorporating a meat product or stew, dried fruit, jams and jellies;
- mixing all ingredients in order to allow their incorporation;
- determining the density of a resultant mass;
- packaging a predetermined quantity of the resultant mass into sterilizable pouches and sealing them;
- sterilizing the packaged product with the resultant mass at a temperature above 100° C.
A composition based on a corn flour for making a food product comprising:
- up to 40 or 50% by weight of hydrated corn flour;
- from 5% to 20% by weight of a fatty component;
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- at least one minor ingredients selected from the group consisting of flavorings, sweeteners, nuts, fruit jams, meat, stew, and fermenting agents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.