Viskase Corporation

Union Carbide Corporation

Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc.

Frederick Maynard Merritt, Ii

George L Brode

Myron D Nicholson

Errol D Goddard

Jeffery A Oxley

Paul Edmund Ducharme, Jr

David B Braun

Russell L Kreeger

Larry Clyde Long

Patrick B Apfeld

The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the smoky color and flavor of foodstuffs, such as sausages, produced in casing containing liquid smoke, by exposing the encased foodstuff to a alkaline solution. Peeling of the sausages is also enhanced.

Process for improving smoky color of an encased food product

Disclosed is a package containing a plurality of cut lengths of fibrous casing which are moisturized to substantially soaked levels of moisture and are retained in an evacuated plastic bag wherein the moisture level of the casing is derived from free water added into the bag prior to evacuation. Also disclosed is a method of packaging cut lengths of casing which provides for the addition of soaked levels of moisture to the casing in the bag.

Food casing package and method of preparing

Described is an edible, water insoluble film which is a blend of polysaccharide and protein and, in particular, a ternary blend of konjac flour as a major constituent, agar and gelatin. Also, described is a method of forming the film including a deacetylating step to insolubilize the konjac flour.

Edible film and method

Disclosed is a food product encased in a water insoluble film of glucomannan and a method for its manufacture. In the process an aqueous solution of glucomannan is cast onto the food product surface and then is deacetylated and coagulated in sire by contact with a saturated salt solution having either an acidic or basic pH. The coagulated solution is cured and dried in the presence of salt and subsequently washed and further dried to provide the water insoluble film.

Method of preparing a food product encased in a glucomannan film

Acid resistant peeling aid compositions and casings, particularly tubular cellulosic food casings, coated therewith, which compositions contain a water-soluble cellulose ether, dextrin and optionally lecithin.

Acid resistant peelable casing

Partially hydrolyzed, poly(N-acyl alkylenimines), and novel nitrogen-substituted derivatives thereof, provide useful and improved personal care compositions and processes.

Partially hydrolyzed, poly(N-acyl alkylenimines) in personal care

Partially hydrolyzed, poly(N-acyl)alkylenimines), and novel nitrogen-substituted derivatives thereof, provide useful and improved personal care compositions and processes.

Partially hydrolyzed, poly(N-acyl)alkylenimines in personal care

Water-soluble, cationic polysaccharides, including quaternary nitrogen-containing cellulose ethers, containing hydrophobic substitution, are substantially water-soluble; provide aqueous solutions having enhanced viscosity, foaming and preferably improved surface properties; and possess utility in personal care, emulsions and cleansers.

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Lockport, IL, United States of America

Frederick Maynard Merritt, Ii