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US 7,740,894 B2Granted
Fiber-containing rice-based cereals and methods of preparation
AssigneePost Foods, LLC
InventorsGeorge McDonald Squire, Andrew McPherson, Edward Larue, Louise Slade, Lynn Haynes
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Abstract
Methods for providing cooked rice with enhanced levels of fiber, wherein the fiber-containing cooked rice is suitable and especially adapted for use in preparing fiber-containing rice-based cereal products and especially for preparing fiber-containing puffed rice-based cereal products, are provided.
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A method for producing a fiber-containing rice-based cereal, said method comprising:
- (1) precooking dried rice to form a partially hydrated rice having a first moisture content of about 10 to about 20 percent;
- (2) adding soluble fiber to the partially hydrated rice to form a rice-fiber composition;
- (3) gently mixing the rice-fiber composition to form a homogeneous mixture of the partially hydrated rice and soluble fiber;
- (4) cooking the homogenous mixture to complete hydration of the rice to obtain a cooked rice composition wherein the rice is infused with the soluble fiber and wherein the cooked rice composition has a second moisture content of about 28 to about 42 percent;
- (5) drying the cooked rice composition to a third moisture content of about 15 to about 23 percent to obtain a dried cooked rice composition;
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- (6) treating the dried cooked rice composition by a treatment selected from the group consisting of puffing, flaking, bumping and combinations thereof to form the fiber-containing rice-based cereal which has from about 5 to about 25 percent total dietary fiber.
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A method of preparing fiber-infused cooked rice, said method comprising:
- (1) precooking dried rice to form a partially hydrated rice having a first moisture content of about 10 to about 20 percent;
- (2) adding soluble fiber to the partially hydrated rice to form a rice-fiber composition;
- (3) gently mixing the rice-fiber composition to form a homogeneous mixture of the partially hydrated rice and soluble fiber;
- (4) cooking the homogenous mixture to complete hydration of the rice to obtain a cooked rice composition wherein the rice is infused with the soluble fiber and wherein the cooked rice composition has a second moisture content of about 28 to about 42 percent;
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- (5) drying the cooked rice composition to a third moisture content of about 15 to about 23 percent to obtain the fiber-infused cooked rice having from about 5 to about 25 weight percent total dietary fiber and wherein the dried cooked rice is treatable by a treatment selected from the group consisting of puffing, flaking, bumping and combinations thereof to form the fiber-containing rice-based cereal.
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