105 patents
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Utility
Cooked Caramel Compositions and Related Food Products
19 Jan 23
Cooked and uncooked caramel slurries and products prepared using the cooked caramel slurries, and methods of preparing caramel slurries and coating a cooked caramel slurry onto a food piece.
Daniel R. Green, Katia Severova-Epp, Jazmine N. Gosey, Joel R. Lafavor
Filed: 29 Sep 22
Utility
Analogue Pizza Cheese with Improved Freeze/thaw Stability
29 Dec 22
A pizza cheese composition may include a dairy cheese and analogue cheese.
James Fudge, Matthew Larsen, Joshua Hemann, Wenyi Wang, Aaron Wlaschin, Michelle Manderfeld, Brent Wyrick, Molley Glidden
Filed: 4 Feb 22
Utility
Apparatus and Method for Producing Scored Dough Pieces
15 Dec 22
A bread product is produced by forming a dough piece, creating at least one score in the dough piece, applying an adhesive to the dough piece with the adhesive extending across the score, freezing the dough piece to produce a frozen dough piece, and baking the dough piece, causing the adhesive to melt while establishing a bread product having, in a central region of the bread product, what was once a score held together by the adhesive during the early stages of baking, an internal exposed region.
Steven J. Cox, David J. Domingues, Roger G. Fuentes, Paul Henderson, Kara M. Hobart, Olivia Murch, Vani Vemulapalli
Filed: 10 Jun 21
Utility
Hard Taco Shell and Method for Producing the Hard Taco Shell
8 Dec 22
A taco shell is produced by applying a plasticizing agent to a base or spine portion of a hard taco shell, such as by targeted spraying, rolling, brushing or dipping of the taco shells, thereby softening the base or spine portion, preferably across a strip width between 4 mm-20 mm.
Christine M. Dosch, John James Fenske, James David Nelson, Christine M. Nowakowski
Filed: 4 Jun 21
Utility
Food Safety Method
22 Sep 22
Methods for inoculating a grain suitable for use in testing methods of reducing bacterial load are disclosed.
David J Domingues, Steven R Pretzel, Yuewei Hu, Craig A Dowd, James P Michaels
Filed: 7 Jun 22
Utility
Shelf Stable Aggregate Food and Methods
15 Sep 22
A shelf stable aggregate foods are described that include a relatively low amount of binder, such as a dairy binder or maltodextrin binder.
Linghua Ann Han, Elizabeth Lomauro Igo, Alexandra Martinez-Ropes, Olivia Murch, Emily Ryks
Filed: 8 Mar 22
Utility
Erythritol and Sucrose Coating
15 Sep 22
Dried coated food pieces are produced by applying a composition to a surface of food pieces to produce coated food pieces.
Douglas L. Goedeken, Goeran Walther, Scott K. Whitman
Filed: 21 Nov 19
Utility
Overnight Oats
1 Sep 22
Food compositions comprising a milk ingredient and steam-treated uncooked grains are described.
Steve Cheruvathoor, Kenzi Clark, Julie A. Piasecki, Jie Sun
Filed: 7 Oct 20
Utility
Cereal Food Product and Method of Making the Same
25 Aug 22
Cocoa or cinnamon is mixed at least one enzyme to form a mixture, and the mixture is combined with a cereal food composition.
Pamela J. Pederson, Christine M. Nowakowski, Kyle Raney
Filed: 13 May 22
Utility
Dual Textured Food
28 Jul 22
Methods are described that impart a dual texture to baked goods.
Kristi L. Bahe, Kevin Haas
Filed: 13 Apr 22
Utility
Dough Product Packaging Assembly and Method of Packaging
14 Jul 22
A dough product packaging assembly includes one or more dough pieces arranged a first container having a closed, internal cavity, a second container supported upon the first container with an open top portion, a third container housing one or more additional ingredients, such as icing, within the second container, and an outer container extending across the open top portion of the second container and encapsulating each of the first, second and third containers.
Brandon Shook
Filed: 13 Jan 21
Utility
Reduced Sucrose Sugar Coatings for Cereals and Methods of Preparation
14 Jul 22
Disclosed are improved sugar coatings for topically pre-sweetened food products that are sugar reduced whether in the form of a syrup or in the form of a dried coating.
Christopher J. Barrett, Patrick C. Dreese, Daniel R. Green, Victor T. Huang, Christine Nowakowski, Fern A. Panda, Scott Whitman
Filed: 1 Apr 22
Utility
Chocolate-Based Food Composition
2 Jun 22
A chocolate-based food composition is disclosed that includes chocolate and a minor amount of a high melt palm stearin.
Kevin Bock
Filed: 14 Mar 19
Utility
Methods of Making a Treated Fruit Composition
5 May 22
A method is described for making a treated fruit having improved flavor, texture, and/or yield over thermally pasteurized fruit.
Jie Sun
Filed: 3 Apr 19
Utility
Nut Butter Composition
28 Apr 22
A nut butter composition is disclosed that includes a nut butter, a palm oil stearin fraction, and a powdered food ingredient, and methods of making same.
Kevin Bock
Filed: 14 Mar 19
Utility
Hard Taco Shell and Method and Apparatus for Producing the Hard Taco Shell
21 Apr 22
A taco shell is produced using a rotary cutter including a shaft, an outer blade extending radially outward from the shaft and a first inner blade extending radially outward from the shaft.
Shivakumar Elayedath, John J Fenske, Sean Igo, Andrew David King, David Morrison Russell, Samuel Whitmore, Mark Anthony Zentile
Filed: 30 Dec 21
Utility
pH Controlled Composition
31 Mar 22
Compositions are described that use glucono delta lactone (GDL) in a portion of a composition containing two portions with differing water activities.
Kenzi Clark, Rachel Eaton, James Fischer, Eric T. Gugger, Gargi A. Ramtirtha, Nadja Ryan
Filed: 21 Sep 21
Utility
Gluten-Free Tortillas
3 Feb 22
Gluten-free tortillas are made from a composition including a gluten-free flour mixture constituting from 50-60% of weight of the composition, with the gluten-free flour mixture consisting of a combination of rice or tapioca flour, oat flour and quinoa flour.
Carina Claudia Cammarota, Christine S.t. Ng, Jonas Plaza Garcia
Filed: 13 Oct 21
Utility
Reclosable Frozen Food Packaging Case
3 Feb 22
A reclosable packaging case for transporting or storing a product, such as a frozen food product, has minimal gaps upon reclosure of the packaging case.
Zachary Renk, Tal A Tostenson
Filed: 31 Jul 20
Utility
Multiple Emulsions, Method of Making Them and Applications in Food, Cosmetics and Pharmaceuticals
20 Jan 22
The present invention relates to a multiple emulsion comprising or consisting of P1/O/W2, wherein P1 is an aqueous phase forming droplets or a gas phase forming bubbles, said droplets or bubbles being dispersed in O thereby forming P1/O, wherein O is an oily phase comprising crystals, wherein W2 is an aqueous phase comprising at least one hydrophilic surfactant, wherein P1/O globules are formed in W2, wherein said oily phase O comprises at least 90%, preferably at least 92%, and even preferably at least 95%, by mass of triglycerides with respect to the mass of the O phase.
Lucie Goibier, Chrystel Faure, Fernando Leal Calderon, Cyril Chaudemanche
Filed: 14 Nov 19