Preparation of a granular food product
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsRobert G. Odermatt, David Roeschli
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Abstract
A granular food product is prepared by mixing a molten fat with an amylaceous material, extruding the mixture in strands, cooling the strands and then subdividing them into sections and projecting the sections through a grill to size-reduce the sections into granules.
Claims14
A process for preparing a granular food product comprising heating a fat to obtain a molten fat, mixing the molten fat and an amylaceous material to obtain a mixture of the fat and material, extruding the mixture to obtain extruded strands, conveying and cooling the strands on a first conveyor belt to harden the strands, dropping the hardened strands from the first conveyor belt onto a second conveyor belt to subdivide the hardened strands into sections and projecting the sections through a grill to obtain granules.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.