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US 5,972,399 AGranted
Coated food
AssigneeHercules Incorporated
InventorsJohn Arthur Lapre, William Thomas McNabola, Jan Veenstra, Hielke Tjeerd De Vries
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Abstract
A ready to eat, nonfried food made up of a cooked and hydrated carbohydrate core, and a cation crosslinked polysaccharide coating which substantially reduces the core's glycemic response.
Claims32
A ready to eat, nonfried food comprising:
- (a) a cooked and hydrated core comprising a carbohydrate;
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- (b) a coating that is substantially insoluble in boiling water and substantially reduces the glycemic response of the core, the coating comprising a cation crosslinked polysaccharide which has been crosslinked during cooking and hydrating of the core.
A food preparation for cooking in an aqueous medium comprising a core comprising a carbohydrate coated with a coating comprising a crosslinkable polysaccharide, the food preparation being suspended in an aqueous medium at boiling temperature, the aqueous medium containing cations for crosslinking the crosslinkable polysaccharide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.