# US 4,400,406 A · Frozen dessert food > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 4,400,406 A - Document ID: US4400406A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 06/228,557 - Filed: 1981-01-26 - Granted: 1983-08-23 - Earliest claimed: 1980-11-26 - Assignees: Landwide Foods, Inc. - Inventors: Robert G. Morley; W. Ronald Ashton - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4400406A ## CPC - A23G 9/32: characterised by the composition {containing organic or inorganic compounds} - A23C 9/137: Thickening substances - A23G 9/20: the products being mixed with gas, e.g. soft-ice - A23G 9/28: for portioning or dispensing - A23G 9/40: characterised by the dairy products used - A23G 9/46: Aerated, foamed, cellular or porous products - A23G 9/503: {products with an inedible support, e.g. a stick} - A23G: COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF - A23C: DAIRY PRODUCTS, e.g. MILK, BUTTER OR CHEESE; MILK OR CHEESE SUBSTITUTES; PREPARATION THEREOF (preservation thereof A23B11/00) ## Abstract A whipped frozen dessert product, which emulates features of conventional soft serve ice cream but at the lower temperatures of home freezers, has a unique composition with multiple stabilizers, multiple emulsifiers, and multiple sugars. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A whipped, emulsified frozen dessert product extrudable in continuous form and coneable at temperatures at least in the range of 0.degree. to 10.degree. F. for serving by extrusion at home freezer temperatures, consisting essentially, in unflavored form, of a controlled emulsion of edible fat, protein, water, sugars, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, said edible fat accounting for up to substantially 15% by weight of the product, said protein accounting for substantially 3% to 7% by weight of the product, said water accounting for substantially 43% to 63% by weight of the product, said sugars accounting for substantially 18% to 30% by weight of the product, and said emulsifiers and stabilizers accounting for substantially 0.55% to 1.8% by weight of the product. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A frozen dessert product as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said sugars include plural sugars selected from the group consisting of fructose, sorbitol, corn syrup, sucrose, dextrose and mannitol, starch hydrolysates, invert sugars, honey and xylitol. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A frozen dessert product as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said stabilizers include a water binding agent, a gelling agent, and a blocking agent, and said emulsifiers include a whipping agent and a drying agent. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A frozen dessert product as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said stabilizers include a water binding agent selected from the group consisting of locust bean gum, guar gum, propylene glycol alginate, tara gum, and cellulose ethers, a gelling agent selected from the group consisting of gelatin, xanthan gum, carrageenan, sodium alginate and pectin, and an insoluble blocking agent selected from the group consisting of blocking stabilizers in the foregoing water binding and gelling groups and microcrystalline cellulose and cellulose fibers. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A frozen dessert product as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said emulsifiers include a whipping agent selected from the group consisting of mono- and diglycerides, and distilled monoglycerides, and a drying agent selected from the group consisting of polysorbate 80, polysorbate 65, and ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A frozen food as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said emulsifiers include mono- and/or diglycerides and are present in an amount from substantially 0.2% to 0.8% by weight of the product and effective to control the emulsification of said product and to provide said extrudability and coneability of said product, and said stabilizers include from about 0.1% to 0.5% by weight of the product of gelling agents, and are present in an amount effective to provide said product with significant resistance to thermal shock and to provide substantial mouth-feel, body and chewiness. ### Claim 7 A whipped, emulsified frozen dessert product extrudable in continuous form and coneable at temperatures at least in the range of 0.degree. to 10.degree. F. for serving by extrusion at home freezer temperatures. consisting essentially, in unflavored form, of a controlled emulsion of edible fat, protein, water, sugars, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, said edible fat accounting for up to substantially 15% by weight of the product, said protein accounting for substantially 3% to 7% by weight of the product, said water accounting for substantially 43% to 63% by weight of the product, said sugars accounting for substantially 18% to 30% by weight of the product, said emulsifiers, with said other ingredients controlling the emulsification of said product for attaining said extrudability and said coneability, and said stabilizers, with said other ingredients, providing said product with significant resistance to thermal shock, and with substantial mouth-feel, body and chewiness, and attaining said extrudability and said coneability. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7 further characterized by having an overrun at least on the order of 100%. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7 further characterized in that said sugars include plural sugars selected from the group consisting of fructose, sorbitol, corn syrup, sucrose, dextrose and mannitol, starch hydrolysates, invert sugars, honey and xylitol. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7 further characterized in that said stabilizers include a water binding agent selected from the group consisting of locust bean gum, guar gum, propylene glycol alginate, tara gum, and cellulose ethers, a gelling agent selected from the group consisting of gelatin, xanthan gum, carrageenan, sodium alginate and pectin, and an insoluble blocking agent selected from the group consisting of blocking stabilizers in the foregoing water binding and gelling groups and microcrystalline cellullose and cellulose fibers. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7 further characterized in that said emulsifiers include a whipping agent selected from the group consisting of mono- and diglycerides and distilled monoglycerides, and a drying agent selected from the group consisting of polysorbate 80, polysorbate 65, and ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7, further characterized in that said emulsifiers include mono- and/or diglycerides and are present in an amount effective to control the emulsification of said product and to provide said extrudability and coneability of said product, and said stabilizers include gelling agents in an amount effective to provide said product with significant resistance to thermal shocks and to provide substantial mouth-feel, body and chewiness. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) A dessert product as defined in claim 7 further characterized in that said emulsifiers include mono- and/or diglycerides and are present in an amount from substantially 0.2% to 0.8% by weight of the product and effective to control the emulsification of said product and to provide said extrudability and coneability of said product, and said stabilizers include from about 0.1% to 0.5% by weight of the product of gelling agents, and are present in an amount effective to provide said product with significant resistance to thermal shocks and to provide substatial mouth-feel, body and chewiness. ### Claim 14 A whipped, emulsified frozen dessert product consisting essentially, in unflavored form, of a controlled emulsion of edible fat, protein, water, sugars, stabilizes, and emulsifiers, said edible fat accounting for up to substantially 15% by weight of the product, said protein accounting for substantially 3% to 7% by weight of the product, said water accounting for substantially 43% to 63% by weight of the product, said sugars accounting for substantially 18% to 30% by weight of the product, said stabilizers including agents providing water binding, gelling, and blocking, and said emulsifiers including agents whipping and drying, said product having a yield value, as determined at 0.degree. F. by penetrometer measurement, lower than that of conventional ice cream at the same temperature, and substantially the same as or less than that of conventional soft serve at a temperature of 16.degree. F., and said product being extrudable in continuous form and coneable at temperatures at least in the range of 0.degree. to 10.degree. F. for serving by extrusion at home freezer temperatures. ### Claim 15 A whipped, emulsified frozen dessert product extrudable in continuous form and coneable at temperatures at least in the range of 0.degree. to 10.degree. F. for serving by extrusion at home freezer temperatures, consisting essentially, in unflavored form, of a controlled emulsion of edible fat, protein, water, sugars, stabilizers, and emulsifiers, said fat being present in an amount up to substantially 15% by weight of the product, said protein being present in an amount substantially between 3% and 7% by weight of the product, said water being present in an amount substantially between 43% and 63% by weight of the product, said sugars being present in an amount from substantially between 18% and 30% by weight of the product, said emulsifiers including mono- and/or diglycerides and being present in an amount substantially between 0.2% and 0.8% by weight of the product and effective to control the emulsification of said product and to provide said extrudability and coneability of said product, and said stabilizers including from about 0.1% to 0.5% by weight of the product of gelling agents, and being present in an amount effective to provide said product with significant resistance to thermal shock and to provide substantial mouth-feel, body and chewiness.