Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC

Chen Y Wang

Jan Karwowski

Douglas A Smyth

Heather Michelle Johnson

Jaime C Ho

Vani Vemulapalli

Theresa R Cea

Don C Winfrey

Emily Jane Rudolph Olson

Emily Jane Rudolph

Process for making crunchy flavorful nut products comprising contacting raw nuts with a water source effective to moisten the nuts without immersing the nuts in the water source, and roasting the moistened nuts. The nut products are crunchy and retain nut flavor when processed in this manner.

Process to enhance flavor of roasted nuts and products with modified texture

Roasted infused seeds and a process for preparing roasted infused seeds are described. In one aspect, the roasted infused seeds may have salt, flavors, nutrients, colors, and/or functional ingredients as well as mixtures of these components infused internally into the seed. By infusing such components into the seeds, the methods described herein provide roasted seeds with unique flavors, nutrients, colors, textures, densities, and/or other functionalities.

Infused roasted seeds and methods of making thereof

Shelf-stable whole grain-containing composite food products, such as savory and sweet snacks and cereals, are continuously produced by preparing a dough comprising cooking whole grain cereal grain particles in the presence of water effective to gelatinize starch content of the whole grain cereal particles to provide gelatinized whole grain cereal grain particles, and mixing the gelatinized whole grain cereal grain particles with starch, whole grain flour, optional minor dough ingredients such as leavening agent, and a food component selected from the group consisting of vegetables and fruits, effective to prepare dough. The dough is formed into discrete dough units, which are baked or fried to provide a whole-grain containing composite food product that is nutritious, low fat, multi-flavored, and a good source of dietary fiber.

Production of whole grain-containing composite food products

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Morris Plains, NJ, United States of America

Chen Y Wang