Systems and methods for selecting flour
AssigneeRich Products Corporation
InventorsPraveen Upreti, Rohit Jalali, William E. Grieshober, Jr., John S. Roberts, Melissa D. Haller, Michael Fuchs, Ilya Y. Ilyin
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Abstract
Flour may be treated to denature the proteins and modify starches. The invention includes methods and systems for determining whether to use treated flour or untreated flour. The invention also includes methods and systems for determining whether to treat flour or not.
Claims17
A microprocessor implemented method of determining a required weight of treated flour per unit of final product in a flour based product, the method comprising:
- predicting by a microprocessor a change in absorption of the flour due to heat treatment and calculating the required weight of flour according to the change in absorption to provide the required weight of treated flour, said predicted absorption value for heat treated flour is determined according to:
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- wherein
- A=absorption;
- Ao=initial absorption;
- Ae=maximum absorption achieve at a given temperature and protein content flour:
- Dr=reference decimal value to increase absorption;
- Tr=reference temperature;
- T=heat treatment temperature;
- and
- z=the temperature change necessary to change the D-value by 90% or one-log cycle.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory medium having instructions to program a microprocessor to carry out a method comprising the step of predicting by a microprocessor a change in absorption of the flour due to heat treatment and calculating the required weight of flour according to the change in absorption to provide the required weight of treated flour, said predicted absorption value for heat treated flour is determined according to:
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- wherein
- A=absorption;
- Ao=initial absorption;
- Ae=maximum absorption achieve at a given temperature and protein content flour:
- Dr=reference decimal value to increase absorption;
- Tr=reference temperature;
- T=heat treatment temperature;
- and
- z=the temperature change necessary to change the D-value by 90% or one-log cycle.
An apparatus comprising a microprocessor programmed with the program to predict a change in absorption of the flour due to heat treatment and calculating the required weight of flour according to the change in absorption to provide the required weight of treated flour, said predicted absorption value for heat treated flour is determined according to:
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- wherein
- A=absorption;
- Ao=initial absorption;
- Ae=maximum absorption achieve at a given temperature and protein content flour:
- Dr=reference decimal value to increase absorption;
- Tr=reference temperature;
- T=heat treatment temperature;
- and
- z=the temperature change necessary to change the D-value by 90% or one-log cycle.
A method of determining a required weight of treated flour per unit of final product in a flour based product, the method comprising:
- predicting by a microprocessor a change in absorption of the flour due to heat treatment and calculating the required weight of flour according to the change in absorption to provide the required weight of treated flour, said predicted absorption value for heat treated flour is based on the following formula:
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- wherein, A=absorption, Ao=initial absorption, Ae=maximum absorption achieve at a given temperature and protein content flour based on the formula Ae=Ao+3.2632e0.0044T, Dr=the reference decimal value which is 27 minutes at 260° F. to increase absorption by 90% or one log-cycle, Tr=reference the temperature of 260° F., T=the heat treatment temperature between 250-330° F., and z=167° F. and is the temperature change necessary to change the D-value by 90% or one-log cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.