Method of preparation of sugar beet fiber material
AssigneeAmerican Crystal Sugar Company
InventorsTerry D. McGillivray, David R. Groom, Dennis Brown, Richard R. Fergle, Gregory Haakenson
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Abstract
A method of preparation of sugar beet fiber material for use as a non-caloric, non-coloring, bland ingredient in foodstuffs, comprising cleaning, peeling, and slicing sugar beets into cossettes and blanching the cossettes. The blanched cossettes have the sugar removed by extraction and are tissue milled to reduce the particle size. The resulting slurry may be further solvent extracted, washed, and dried.
Claims9
A process for preparing a fiber material from sugar beets for use in foodstuffs as a non-caloric, decolorized, and bland ingredient, comprising the steps of:
- (a) washing the beets;
- (b) peeling the washed beets;
- (c) preparing cossettes by slicing the peeled beets;
- (d) inspecting said cossettes and rejecting cossettes with defects;
- (e) blanching said cossettes by raising the temperature of said cossettes to 100.degree. C.;
- (f) extracting the sucrose form said blanched cossettes;
- (g) reducing the particle size of said cossettes from which the sucrose has been extracted to form a slurry having aggregate clumps of from about 6 cells to about 25 cells;
- (h) washing said slurry with an acid wash having a pH of between about 4.5 to about 7.0;
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- (i) drying said slurry.
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