Rapidly disintegrating flavor wafer for flavor enrichment
OwnerHorst G. Zerbe, Fadia Al-Khalilinventors
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Abstract
A sheet-shaped flavored film that rapidly disintegrates when placed on the surface of certain substrates and releases a natural or artificial flavor to the substrate to enhance or modify the intrinsic flavor of the substrate is provided. The flavored film includes one or more water-soluble polymers, one or more surfactants, and one or more flavoring agents. The flavored film has numerous applications in the food and food service industry wherein an easy to use, inexpensive and reproducible method of flavoring food products is desired.
Claims20
A sheet-shaped flavored film for the addition or modification of one or more flavors to food, said film being free of pharmaceutically and cosmetically active ingredients.
A process for modifying the flavor of the food, comprising:
- depositing a flavored film on the food, and disintegrating the film, thereby releasing a flavor to the food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.