Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.

Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC

Post Foods, LLC

Andrew Mcpherson

Asma Ahad

Ahmad Akashe

Andrew E Mcpherson

Stacey Ann Hirt

Maria Del Cobos

Manoj Ramprasad Shah

Louise Slade

Lynn C Haynes

John B Topinka

Gary Francis Smith

Miranda Miller

Paul V Gass

Weizhi Chen

Sara K Cooper

Dominic J Vellucci

Edward Larue

Wibul Charintranond

Brian E Levine

George Mcdonald Squire

Laura Brisske

Adrienne L Nichols

Judith Guelten Moca

Richard Stuart Silver

William Harold Schwimmer

Allen Phillip Sass

Hong Laura Li

Jane L Macdonald

Richard R Leshik

Chih-Yang G Lo

Donald L Messick

Harold L Peet

Mary M Sole

According to embodiments, a dry powdered composition which may be reconstituted to provide a gelatin product includes powdered gelatin and a pelletized colorant. The pelletized colorant includes a pigment-protein complex and at least one encapsulating agent for encapsulating the pigment-protein complex. The pelletized colorant has a rate of dissolution of less than 2 grams/minute in water having an initial temperature of from about 95° C. to about 100° C. Methods of making food products with the pelletized colorant are also disclosed. In embodiments, when the food products are measured on the L*a*b* color space, the food products have an L* value of about 49 to about 57, an a* value of about −10 to about −16, and a b* value of from about −11 to about −20.5.

Pelletized colorants comprising a pigment-protein complex and food products including the same

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Mount Prospect, IL, United States of America

Andrew E Mcpherson