Process for adhesively bonding peanut halves
AssigneeAkzo N.V.
InventorsEduard J. T. M. Huisman, Rudy Vis
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Abstract
An improved process is provided for treating skinned peanuts with an edible powder. In the improved process, peanuts including those peanuts which have split into halves are rotated relative to each other while associated with a substantially dry edible powder until the flat faces of half peanuts have an edible powder adhering thereto and two half peanuts become bonded together face to face to form a whole peanut. A tumbler having a drum disposed to rotate about a substantially horizontal axis and having a roughened interior surface is preferably used for rotating the peanuts.
Claims13
A process for salvaging peanuts which have split into halves, which comprises rotating skinned peanuts containing peanuts split into halves in a drum having its axis substantially horizontal and having a roughened interior surface, adding a substantially dry edible powder selected from the group consisting of sugar, cocoa, silica powder, flour, unmodified starch, physically modified starch, chemically modified starch, milk protein and mixtures thereof to the peanuts and continuing the rotation with the dry edible powder without addition of water or an aqueous solution thereto until half-peanuts are bonded together face to face simulating whole peanuts.
A method for adhesively bonding skinned peanut halves together which comprises tumbling in a rotating drum having an irregular surface said peanut halves with a substantially dry edible powder selected from the group consisting of sugar, cocoa, silica powder, flour, unmodified starch, physically modified starch, chemically modified starch, milk protein and mixtures thereof under substantially anhydrous conditions until the edible powder mixes with fat and protein of the peanuts to form an adhesive which bonds pairs of the half peanuts together flat face to flat face to form products which appear to be whole peanuts.
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