Potato dough
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorMaria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran
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Abstract
Disclosed is a potato dough and a method for making the same. The potato dough can be used to produce food products such as mashed potatoes, potato patties, potato pancakes, and potato snacks. The potato dough can also be used to form dehydrated potato products such as flakes, flanules, granules, agglomerates, sheets, pieces, bits, flour, and particulates. The dehydrated potato products are suitable for use in a wide variety of food products, such as mashed potatoes, potato patties, potato pancakes, potato snacks, breads, gravies, and sauces. The food products made from the dough and/or from the dehydrated products produced therefrom have improved potato flavor and improved texture. Especially preferred is an improved fabricated chip.
Claims18
A dough comprising:
- (a) from about 35% to about 85% starch-based flour, wherein said starch based flour comprises from about 25% to about 100% potato flakes comprising:
- (1) less than about 70% broken cells;
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- (2) a soluble Amylose to soluble Amylopectin ratio of from about 0.4 to about 4;
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- (b) from about 15% to about 50% added water.
A starch-based potato dough having a Tg of from about −15° C. to about 15° C. (at 30% moisture).
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