Unilever Bestfoods, North America Division of Conopco, Inc.

Good Humor-breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Ingrid Anne Appelqvist

Jadwiga Malgorzata Bialek

Malcolm G Jones

Charles R Brown

Ian Timothy Norton

Jeffrey Underdown

Mark Emmett Malone

Jennifer Elizabeth Homan

Caroline Anne Watson

Alex Aldred

The invention relates to a process for thickening a product by adding a mixture of PME-deactivated and non-PME deactivated vegetables or fruits to the product, as well as to a product and a thickening agent comprising that mixture and their preparation.

Thickening agent and process for thickening

Frozen low-fat food emulsions comprise a continuous aqueous phase and a dispersed phase which comprises fat particles, gel particles and fat-soluble flavour molecules; substantially all of the fat particles are located within the gel particles, and at least 35% of the flavour molecules are located in a plurality of the gel particles. The rate of release of the flavour molecules from the frozen emulsion is delayed, thereby imparting the taste of a full-fat emulsion.

Frozen low-fat food emulsions

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Bedford, United Kingdom

Ingrid Anne Appelqvist