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US 4,764,388 AGranted
Method for making vitamin enriched cereal
AssigneeNabisco Brands, Inc.
InventorsSpencer W. Sullivan, Marsha K. Verrico
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Abstract
This invention is a method for distributing a dry, multi-vitamin premix into a cereal grain which is, used for making a milled cereal product. In the preferred embodiment the milled cereal product is shredded wheat. The product of the method is also included in this invention.
Claims16
A method for multi-vitamin enriching a milled cereal, comprising:
- (a) cooking a cereal grain at temperatures and humidities which hydrate and gelatinize cereal grain internal structure to form a gelatinized, wet cereal grain mass and subsequently;
- (b) adding a dry multi-vitamin premix into said cooked cereal grain mass with sufficient simultaneous mixing to form a homogeneous multi-vitamin premix and cereal grain composition and then;
- (c) milling said multi-vitamin premix and cereal grain composition, wherein milled cereal pieces are formed;
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- (d) baking said milled cereal pieces.
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A method for multi-vitamin enriching a milled cereal, comprising:
- (a) cooking a cereal grain;
- (b) tempering said cooked cereal grain at temperatures and humidities which hydrate and gelatinize cereal grain internal structure to form a gelatinized, cereal grain mass and subsequently;
- (c) adding a dry multi-vitamin premix by a means for feeding powder at a steady flow rate into said cooked cereal grain mass with sufficient simultaneous mixing to form a homogeneous dry multi-vitamin premix and cereal grain composition, said steady flow rate being a rate of between about 20 mg and about 30 mg of dry multi-vitamin premix for between approximately 125 and approximately 140 pounds of cereal grain mass and then;
- (d) milling said dry multi-vitamin premix and cereal grain composition wherein milled cereal particles are formed;
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- (e) baking said milled cereal pieces.
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A method for multi-vitamin enriching a shredded cereal, said method includes:
- (a) cooking wheat and tempering said wheat at temperatures and humidities which hydrate and gelatinize cereal grain internal structure to form a hydrated, gelatinized wheat mass;
- (b) shredding said wheat mass into a shredded sheet and forming laminae of said shredded sheet;
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- (c) baking said laminated, shredded sheet and forming cereal pieces of said laminated, shredded sheet;
- wherein the improvement comprises adding a dry multi-vitamin premix with simultaneous mixing into said hydrated, gelatinized wheat mass, thereby distributing said dry, multi-vitamin premix into the cereal grain mass of said cereal pieces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.