Abstract:
A filled food product, such as Italian dumplings known as ravioli, cappelletti, tortelli, panzerotti and the like, includes an envelope made of pasta, enclosing therein a filling made of edible raw materials. The envelope includes of at least one sheet of fresh pasta and the filling comprises a first dose of a first component, a second dose of a second component, and optionally a third dose of a third component. The doses are distinct and enclosed within the envelope. The envelope is made up of a lower layer and an upper layer that are in mutually facing relationship and joined together along a substantially continuous peripheral edge having a predetermined shape. The envelope is closed along the peripheral edge in substantially liquid-tight fashion.
Abstract:
A frozen heated gyoza dumpling easy to cook by heating after freeze preservation and superior in the texture can be obtained by attaching a batter liquid containing 70-90 wt % of water to at least a surface to be baked of the gyoza dumpling at a proportion of 18-30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the gyoza dumpling. In addition, a manufacturing method thereof is provided.
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:
Specific and unique proportions of ingredients, including tofu, are used to make inventive foods in which tofu replaces a significant percentage of ingredients of animal origin. Among the inventive foods incorporating tofu in a simple process are dough balls designed to form fresh pasta or pizza, batters designed to form waffle products, and ground meat and ground seafood products comprising sausage, hamburgers, and meat loaf. The products are easy to make and high in nutritional value as substitute soy protein for animal fat in each case, thereby reducing the caloric and fat content significantly compared with conventional products of these types.
Abstract:
The subject invention is a method for formulating pasta into larger segments for consumption purposes generally including the steps for having uncooked pasta heated and/or cooked in a conventional manner and taking the cooked portion of pasta and molding such portions of cooked pasta together by heat, pressure, or a combination of both heat and pressure or by other methods, so as to produce a unitary portion of pasta of a larger size than the individual pasta portions that are molded together.
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:
A production method of Chinese fried meat dumplings includes loading meat dumplings on a conveyer, steaming the meat dumplings on the conveyer, and frying the meat dumplings by increasing a temperature of the conveyer from 50° C. to 200-280° C. in 1-8 minutes as the conveyer moves the meat dumplings toward downstream.
Abstract:
The present invention provides fully cooked, ready to heat and serve pasta compositions which are stabilized against the development of toxins from pathogenic bacterial contaminants under refrigeration conditions for 120 days or more. The stabilized pasta compositions are attained by the incorporation of nisin-containing cultured whey derived from a nisin-producing culture. The pasta of the present invention is prepared from pasta dough comprising about 55 to about 80 percent high protein wheat flour, about 1 to about 5 percent wheat gluten, 0 to about 20 percent egg product, 0 to about 3 percent dough conditioner, sufficient nisin-containing cultured whey to provide about 200 to about 1200 IU nisin/g pasta dough, and sufficient water to provide a total moisture content of about 25 to about 35 percent.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device and method for ensuring more uniform heating of food by microwaves. The method includes providing food in a portion having a predetermined size and shape; and providing a container adapted for receiving and reheating the portion of food in a microwave oven. The container forms a supporting cavity having peripheral sides and a bottom side, with the portion of food placed within the supporting cavity. The peripheral sides of the container are circumferentially shielded by a microwave reflective material that forms a circumference having axial and transverse distances that are determined so as to change the wavelength of resonant modes inside the food thereby resulting in a more uniform heating food pattern.
Abstract:
A shelf-stable filled pasta and a method of making same, the method comprising providing an acid-treated or acid-containing tillable pasta piece having a pH of about 4.6 or less; inserting filling into the tillable pasta piece; exposing the filling in the filled pasta piece to microwave or radio frequency radiation to reduce the water activity in the filling to about 0.85 or less; sealing the filled pasta piece in a package; and pasteurizing the filled pasta piece at any point in the process after the filling has been inserted into the fillable pasta piece. The shelf-stable filled pasta is a pasta made by the foregoing method.