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US 6,805,888 B2Granted
Method for preparing a puffed grain food product and a puffed grain food product
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorRei-Young Amos Wu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a puffed grain food product having a mixture of puffable low expansion grain and puffable high expansion grain. Flavoring agents, coloring agents or mixtures thereof are absorbed into the puffable low expansion grain pieces. The treated puffable low expansion grain pieces are then mixed with the puffable high expansion grain pieces, placed in a mold, and puffed to form an edible puffed grain food product.
Claims20
A method of making a puffed grain food product comprising:
- mixing puffable high expansion grain pieces with puffable low expansion grain pieces, said low expansion grain pieces having one or more ingredients absorbed therein selected from the group consisting of flavoring agents, coloring agents and mixtures thereof, to form a resulting grain mixture;
- puffing said grain mixture in a mold to form a puffed grain food product.
A puffed grain food product prepared by the method comprising:
- mixing puffable high expansion grain pieces with puffable low expansion grain pieces, said low expansion grain pieces having one or more ingredients absorbed therein selected from the group consisting of flavoring agents, coloring agents and mixtures thereof, to form a resulting grain mixture;
- puffing said grain mixture in a mold to form a puffed grain food product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.