A E Staley Manufacturing Company

Daniel K Tang

Robert V Schanefelt

William F Lehnhardt

Gary A Day

Donald W Lillard, Jr

Charles E Streaty

Walter C Yackel, Jr

Larry W Peckous

Lawrence R Schwab

Ho S Yang

Francis M Mallee

An integrated process is disclosed which produces both crystalline fructose and a liquid-phase sweetener such as High Fructose Corn Syrup from a feed stream comprising dextrose. A portion of the dextrose in the feed stream is isomerized to fructose and the resulting dextrose/fructose stream is fractionated to produce a high fructose stream. A portion of the fructose in the high fructose stream is crystallized out and the mother liquor remaining after crystallization is blended with dextrose-containing streams to produce the liquid-phase sweetener.

Integrated process for producing crystalline fructose and a

Integrated process for producing crystalline fructose and high-fructose,

Vegetable proteins may be converted into isolates which are useful for preparing imitation cheese products. These unique isolates are characterized in general as: having an NSI of at least 90, having not been subjected to enzymatic or chemical hydrolysis, forming an insoluble gel when reconstituted in water at a 15% by weight protein isolate concentration and heated to 85.degree. C. for 30 minutes, and yielding a melt value of at least 15 cm.sup.2. The isolates are prepared under conditions which precondition the protein molecules so that they may be converted, upon heat treatment, into protein aggregates which simulate the hydrocolloidal attributes of caseinate. The heat treatment causes restructuring of the proteinaceous molecules into large molecular weight aggregates. Soy isolates prepared in accordance with this invention may be utilized to replace from about 20% to 60% or higher of the caseinate in an imitation cheese recipe without adversely affecting the melt characteristics of the imitation cheese product.

Soy isolate suitable for use in imitation cheese

Soy isolate in meltable imitation cheese

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Decatur, IL, United States of America

Daniel K Tang