Preparation of edible food product cups containing a filling
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsJean-Jacques Desjardins, Roman Deutsch, Ernst Heck, Jean Horisberger
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Abstract
Edible cups containing an edible filling are prepared by extrusion-cooking ingredients which include a cereal ingredient and extruding an extrusion-cooked product strip, passing the product strip to a heated pressing device for hot-pressing the product strip while it is still thermoplastic to form cavities in the strip which define cup structures in a row and then, incisions are made between the cup structures, a food product filling is introduced into the cup structure cavity and the strip is cut so that filled cups are obtained.
Claims17
A process for preparing edible cups which contain a filling comprising the steps of:
- extrusion-cooking, in an extruder, a mixture which comprises a cereal ingredient to produce a cooked product and extruding the cooked product from the extruder to obtain an elongate thermoplastic flat, cooked product strip;
- heating a forming press device and passing the flat thermoplastic product strip obtained from the extruder to the heated press device and pressing the product strip while the product is still thermoplastic for forming an elongate row of cavities in the strip between elongate strip edges for forming a formed strip which comprises an elongate row of cup structures;
- incising the formed strip at positions between the cup structures so that each cup structure in the elongate row is incised from adjacent cup structures so that upon cutting the formed strip to cut strip portions between cup structures and the strip edges, the cup structures separate one from another;
- filling the cavities of the cup structures with an edible filling to obtain filled cup structures;
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- cutting the formed strip to cut off, from the cup structures, strip portions which are between the cup structures and strip edges so that the filled cup structures separate one from another to obtain individual cups containing filling.
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