General Foods Limited

Edwin Bernard Herman

Gerhard J Haas

Charles V Fulger

Charles R Lazarus

Joaquin Castro Lugay

A process for producing a food composition possessing a malt-like flavor is disclosed. The process involves germinating a cereal grain seed until sprouted roots develop. The sprouted roots are explanted and are then grown on a nutrient medium. The cultured root are then harvested and heated to develop the malt-like flavor. The composition may be utilized as a source of malt flavor in a foodstuff or beverage.

Malt-like flavor from cereal grain root cultures

A process for producing a food composition possessing a malt-like flavor is disclosed. The process involves germinating a cereal grain seed until sprouted roots develop. The sprouted roots are explanted and are then grown on a nutrient medium. The cultured roots are then harvested and heated to develop the malt-like flavor. The composition may be utilized as a source of malt flavor in a foodstuff or beverage.

This invention has identified two compositions, pimento berry oil and terpeneless bay oil, which are effective as antimicrobial agents against cariogenic streptoccus mutans and Lactobaccilli casei and fermenti. These active compositions, when employed in oral preparations and used in an effective regimen of repeated application to these bacteria in the mouth, are useful in reducing dental plaque and dental caries.

Oral preparations for preventing dental caries

Disclosed is a process for preparing a protein-containing food wherein the use of a carbon dioxide packaging atmosphere is found to unexpectantly increase the effectiveness of polyhydric alcohol, especially propylene and butylene glycol, stability agents employed for antimicrobial purposes. In the preferred embodiment, an intermediate moisture pet food, containing cooked meat and employing propylene glycol at a level less than that otherwise effective against mold or bacterial growth, is packaged in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide to provide a pet food stable against mold and bacterial growth.

Pet food preservation

Disclosed is a process for preparing a protein-containing food wherein the use of a carbon dioxide packaging atmosphere is found to unexpectedly increase the effectiveness of edible aliphatic acids and their edible soluble salts, especially sorbate salts, employed for antimicrobial purposes. In the preferred embodiment, an intermediate moisture pet food containing cooked meat and employing a sorbate salt at a level less than that otherwise effective against mold or bacterial growth, is packaged in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide to provide a pet food stable against mold and bacterial growth.

An animal or pet food is prepared wherein a red, meaty color is imparted thereto by incorporation of an effective amount of the pigments produced by growth of Monascus purpureus on rice or corn.

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Yorktown Heights, NY, United States of America

Edwin Bernard Herman