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US 7,438,943 B2Granted
Method for dehydro-roasting
AssigneeConagra Foods Food Ingredients Company, Inc.
InventorsAbizer M. Khairullah, Wade H. Swanson, Ingrid A. Montgomery
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for roasting vegetables and fruit, and the resultant roasted food product. In particular, the present method partially dehydrates the vegetable or fruit followed by roasting the dehydrated product, to produce a dehydro-roasted food product.
Claims6
A method for preparing roasted vegetables and fruit, wherein the method comprises:
- (a) cutting at least one cleaned, whole vegetable to produce vegetable parts;
- (b) drying the vegetable parts with a fixed bed convection dryer to reduce the moisture level from 10% to 65% from the starting moisture level of the vegetable to produce partially dehydrated vegetable parts;
- (c) roasting the dried vegetable parts with a flame for between about 0.25 seconds to about 15 seconds to produce dehydro-roasted vegetable parts;
- (d) branding the dehydro-roasted vegetable parts with a branding device by contacting the surface of the dehydro-roasted vegetable parts with a branding device for less than or equal to about 2.5 seconds, to produce a dehydro-roasted vegetable food product;
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- (e) further treating the partially dehydrated vegetable parts using a process selected from the group consisting of freezing, drying, freeze-drying, treating with preservatives, placing in an acidified solution and canned, placed in an acidified solution and refrigeration packaged, and combinations thereof.
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