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US 6,645,545 B1Granted
Heat treated cereals and process of making
AssigneeLipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsMarius Van Der Beek, Aris Graveland, Gopinath Babasaheb Rajale
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Abstract
Heat treated cereal grains can be obtained from cereal grains by a process, wherein the cereal grains are subjected to a heat treatment with a gas in an annular fluidized bed, which gas has different velocity components; the grains obtained result after milling in a flour with: 25-80% damaged starch a water binding capacity of 1.5-6 g/g an initial gelatinization temperature of more than 50° C. particle size of 1-200 μm.
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Flour from heat treated wheat or rye grains, characterized by:
- an amount of damaged starch, as measured by AACC method 76.30A, of from 25 to 80 wt %, of the total amount of starch in the flour
- a water binding capacity of more than 1.5 and less than 6 g water per g dry matter,
- and having an initial gelatinisation temperature by amylograph of more than 50° C.,
- and having a particle size of from 1 to 200 micron.
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