Processes for products from potatoes and other roots, seeds, and fruit
OwnerK. M. Slimakinventor
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Abstract
A variety of different food products, prepared from edible roots, seeds, and starchy fruits including potatoes, arrowroot, water chestnut, jicama, buckwheat, legumes, millet, milo, barley, oats, corn, teff, rice, cotton seed meal, bread fruit, pumpkin, winter squash, white squash, plantain, banana, and jack fruit are substitutes for wheat and other grains, milk, eggs, and a partial substitute for nuts. A variety of starches, soluble fibers, and insoluble fibers may be combined to provide products that are substitutes for wheat and other grains, milk, eggs, and a partial substitute for nuts.
Claims18
An edible flour,
- consisting essentially of comminuted particles obtained from separate sources,
- said sources consisting essentially of a source of starch, soluble fiber, and of insoluble fiber,
- said source of starch selected from the group consisting of sweet potato, cassava, edible aroids, malanga, yam, amaranth, quinoa, lotus, arrowhead, potatoes, arrowroot, water chestnut, jicama, buckwheat, green bean, legumes, oak, millet, milo, barley, oats, corn, teff, rice, cotton seed meal, breadfruit, pumpkin, winter squash, white pumpkin, white squash, plantain, banana, and jack fruit,
- said source of soluble fiber selected from the group consisting of dried, pulverized vegetable juices, mucilages, gums, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxymethylcellulose, guar gum, tragacanth gum, karaya gum, algin, agar, and carrageenan, and
- said source of insoluble fiber selected from the group consisting of vegetable fiber, alpha cellulose flour, bran, rice hulls, amaranth hulls, milo hulls, corn cobs, bean hulls, and soybean hulls,
- said flour comminuted to a size so that substantially all of said flour passes through a screen of 0.015 inch opening, said flour having a moisture content of less than 20%, and wherein said flour possesses the ability to maintain a risen structure in the absence of gluten.
An edible, whole flour product consisting essentially of tubers, seeds or starchy fruits, selected from the group consisting of potatoes, arrowroot, water chestnut, jicama, buckwheat, legumes, millet, milo, barley, oats, corn, teff, cotton seed mean, breadfruit, pumpkin, winter squash, white squash, plantain, banana, and jack fruit, wherein the flour consists essentially of the starch, soluble fiber and insoluble fiber portions of the tuber, seed or starchy fruit, comminuted to a size so that substantially all of said comminuted tuber, seed or starchy fruit passes through a screen of 0.015 inch mesh opening, said flour having a moisture content of less than 20% by weight, wherein said edible whole flour product possesses the ability to maintain a risen structure in the absence of gluten or chemical modifiers.
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