United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Pop Oats LLC

Regrained, Inc.

Donald A Olson

Tara H McHugh

Zhongli Pan

Charles C Huxsoll

Roberto D Avena Bustillos

Marc Pfeiffer

Daniel J Kurzrock

Rodger Morris

Jordan L Schwartz

A crisp and hard whole kernel oat snack product made by fully hydrating whole oat kernels (i.e. oat groats), and then gelatinizing the starch in the whole oat kernels using an infrared process. The gelatinized oats are then roasted in a hot air dryer. The resulting food product is measurably harder and crisper than other whole oat products currently available.

Crisp and hard whole oat kernel snack

The system for processing brewery spent grains (BSG) includes a specific intermittent infrared (IR) heating and stirring protocol designed to produce a unique dried BSG product that can be used whole or ground up and used as a quality flour suitable for human consumption.

Intermittent infrared drying for brewery-spent grain

The invention relates to intermediate-moisture formed food products made from a mixture of partially dehydrated fruit or vegetable pieces and a gelled matrix such that the water activity in the matrix is substantially equivalent to the water activity of the fruit or vegetable pieces in the mixture. The product may be made from one type of fruit or vegetable alone, a mixture of different fruits, a mixture of different vegetables, or a mixture of various fruit and vegetable pieces.

Intermediate-moisture formed food products made from partially dehydrated fruit and/or vegetables and novel methods of packing thereof

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Isleton, CA, United States of America

Donald A Olson