Frito-lay North America, Inc.

Deepali Palta

Eugenio Bortone

Jorge C Morales-Alvarez

Ajay Rajeshwar Bhaskar

Stefan K Baier

Pierre Faa

Chien-Seng Hwang

Brad Dewayne Rodgers

Kenneth Scott Laverdure

Robert Nolan Cotton

Robert Godfroid

William B Small, Ii

Eldridge M Mount, Iii

Sridevi Narayan-Sarathy

Eldridge M Mount

Nutritious granular materials of fine particle sizes agglomerated within versatile micropellets are useful for inserting significant amounts of nutritious properties into snack foods. Expandable micropellet-containing formulations provide for introduction of fine particle ingredients such as proteins, minerals and other components or desirable nutrients into food processing lines not typically amenable to the fine particle sizes. Micropellet-containing formulations may consist entirely of micropellets, or may contain an expandable starch such as, for example, corn meal, sheeted doughs, and expanded collet products onto which the micropellets may be basted.

Micropellets of fine particle nutrients in snack food products

Methods of incorporating micropellets of fine particle nutrients into snack food products

Composition and method for making a multi-layer bio-based film having one or more cavitated layers. In one aspect, the multilayer flexible film has polylactic acid, an inorganic filler, and a cavitation stabilizer making up at least one film layer. In one aspect, the barrier web has a cavitated bio-based film layer. In another aspect, the print web has a cavitated bio-based film layer.

Composition and method for making a cavitated bio-based film

Micropellets of fine particle nutrients and methods of incorporating same into snack food products

A sustainable method and system for producing bio-fuels from citrus peels and the recovery of limonene and pectin prior to fermentation of the peel solids. In one embodiment a sustainable method and system for the concurrent recovery of limonene and pectin from citrus peels is disclosed. The peels are optionally zested, mixed with water and an acid, and then exploded in a jet cooker or a pressurized extruder. The exploded peels are transferred to a flash vessel where the remaining limonene and water vapor are separated into water and limonene. The pectin fraction is removed from the flash tank and extracted by centrifuge, precipitation and/or filtration. The remaining peel solids are fermented in an anaerobic digester which produces methane, ethanol, acids, COor other end products which can be used as fuel for power generation equipment sufficient to supply the processing system for sustainable operations as described herein.

Sustainable conversion of citrus peel waste

A multi-layer bio-based composite film with a bio-based heat seal layer. The compostable bio-based film can comprise a crystalline bio-based heat seal layer and an amorphous bio-based barrier web layer. The heat seal layer has a second heat melting temperature which is lower than its first heat melting temperature.

Film with compostable heat seal layer

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Deepali Palta