Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a cereal flour raw material that can provide products having superb texture. A further object of the present invention is to provide a food product manufactured using such a cereal flour raw material.The present invention provides a cereal flour composition that contains wheat flour prepared from a type of wheat that does not express the three wheat starch synthase II proteins, and also does not express the three wheat granule bound starch synthase proteins, and another type of cereal flour; and a food product manufactured using such a cereal flour composition.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a method of producing a dried pasta from low protein flour and to the dried pasta produced from the low protein flour. Low protein flour and water are blended to produce a pasta dough with a moisture content of about 25 to about 45 percent. The low protein flour has a protein level less than about 10 percent and the pasta dough does not contain significant amounts of a texture enhancing agent. The pasta dough is extruded into a desired pasta shape. The desired pasta shape is dried at a temperature of at least 75° C. and a relative humidity of at least about 70 percent for a time sufficient to produce a dried pasta with a finished moisture content of about 8 to about 13 percent. The dried pasta is produced has a textural firmness, after cooking, of about 12 to about 21 kgf (kilograms shear force).
Abstract:
An acidified, milk-based, shelf-stable food product comprises a milk-based component and preferably a pasta component. At least the milk-based component contains acidifying agents selected from the group of sodium acid sulfate, sorbic acid, lactic acid, and gluconic acid. This unique combination of acids provides a salty flavor without the addition of sodium chloride and provides an end product having a low pH or low acid taste that is shelf-stable over a significant period of time.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a frozen Oden, which has a good taste after heating, and which is not required to be constantly boiled, such as, at a convenience store, and can be subsequently heated quickly in response to an order to provide one having good taste. The means for solution of the present invention is a method for producing a frozen Oden, wherein at least one type of protein selected from the group consisting of animal proteins and vegetable proteins is used as a main raw material, and the method comprises the steps of: adding processed starch and saccharide to the main raw material to be kneaded; heating the obtained kneaded mixture to obtain a kneaded product; heating the kneaded product in an Oden soup; and subjecting the flavored kneaded product to a high-voltage electric-field brine-freezing treatment.
Abstract:
To provide a food which suitably supply ubiquinol, a substance indispensable to the living body but is liable to be decreased and fall short of the requirements, through ingestion in the same ways as the ordinary foods in daily living.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for producing co-extruded pasta such as stuffed rigatoni and for providing the ability to make a plurality of end crimps with a single die. The method involves distributing pasta dough from an extruder to multiple co-extrusion die inserts that are arranged in a straight line. The straight-line design allows the co-extruded dough strands to drop directly into a single crimp/cut die that has a selected straight, angular or other cut. The invention may be adapted and utilized on any new or pre-existing pasta dough extruders.
Abstract:
The present invention includes a food ingredient comprising soy grits and gluten. The food ingredient is effective to make a food product having a structure substantially the same as a corresponding soy-free product made with wheat flour.
Abstract:
Thioredoxin, a small dithiol protein, is a specific reductant for major food proteins, allergenic proteins and particularly allergenic proteins present in widely used foods from animal and plant sources. All targeted proteins contain disulfide (S—S) bonds that are reduced to the sulfhydryl (SH) level by thioredoxin. The proteins are allergenically active and less digestible in the oxidized (S—S) state. When reduced (SH state), they lose their allergenicity and/or become more digestible. Thioredoxin achieved this reduction when activated (reduced) either by NADPH via NADP-thioredoxin reductase (physiological conditions) or by dithiothreitol, a chemical reductant. Skin tests and feeding experiments carried out with sensitized dogs showed that treatment of the food with reduced thioredoxin prior to ingestion eliminated or decreased the allergenicity of the food. Studies showed increased digestion of food and food proteins by pepsin and trypsin following reduction by thioredoxin.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of disinfecting a foodstuff using a gaseous mixture containing ozone in an amount and for a time sufficient to effect disinfection.
Abstract:
Reduction of frying oil uptake is effected when preparing instant fried noodles by aggregating a plurality of gelatinized noodle dough strips to form a cake mass, subjecting the cake to heat to reduce its moisture content to an amount in a range of from at least about 10% and less than 30% by weight, frying the partially-dried cake in a mass of an edible oil and separating the fried cake from the frying oil mass. In another aspect of the invention, oil uptake reduction is effected by employing a dough having a protein content of from about 8% to about 13% by weight and/or containing an added proteinaceous substance ingredient, such as gluten, and/or containing maltodextrin as an ingredient.