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US 5,209,940 AGranted
Stabilizing unmilled brown rice by ethanol vapors
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
InventorsElaine T. Champagne, Robert J. Hron, Sr., George Abraham
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Abstract
The present invention relates to stabilizing unmilled or partially milled brown rice by contact thereof with ethanol vapors. The present invention also encompasses products of said stabilizing including, stabilized unmilled or partially milled brown rice, and partially stabilized flour produced by grinding of said stabilized unmilled or partially milled brown rice.
Claims20
A process comprising:
- contacting unmilled or partially milled brown rice with ethanol vapor under conditions providing no substantial loss of oil from said unmilled or partially milled brown rice by said ethanol vapor in order to produce stabilized unmilled or partially milled brown rice and ethanol having rice extracts therein;
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- separating said stabilized unmilled or partially milled brown rice from said ethanol having rice extracts therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.