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US 7,479,294 B2Granted
System and method for on-line mixing and application of surface coating compositions for food products
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsAvtar Sokhey, Katherine P. Boebel
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Abstract
A process and apparatus for preparing a surface coating composition for an animal food. The process involves combining, in-line along a food processing line, liquid fat and a dry additive to provide a liquid fat-dry additive composition, which then is combined with a liquid additive to provide a surface coating composition. The composition is coated on the food.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- (a) combining a liquid fat and a dry additive in-line along a processing line;
- (b) forming a liquid fat-dry additive composition;
- (c) combining at least one liquid additive with the liquid fat-dry additive composition formed in (b) in-line along the processing line;
- (d) forming a surface coating composition;
- (e) coating an external surface of an extruded and dried animal food with the surface coating composition formed in (d) along the processing line;
- (f) producing a coated animal food;
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- wherein said animal food comprises a dog food, cat food, dog treat or cat treat.
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