Frito-lay North America, Inc.

Recot Inc.

John Gregory Fulcher

V N Rao

Vincent Allen Elder

Michael Grant Topor

Henry Kin-Hang Leung

Ponnattu Kurian Joseph

Pravin Maganlal Desai

Vn Mohan Rao

Gerald Vogel

Larry Carl Swarvar

Eric Richard Boudreaux

Monoj K Gupta

Wu Li

Gerald James Vogel

Eric Boudreaux

A method for reducing the amount of asparagine, a pre-cursor of acrylamide, in food products that are thermally processed. This invention permits the production of foods having significantly reduced levels of acrylamide. The method relies on contacting a potato feed such as potato slices containing asparagine, an acrylamide pre-cursor, with a leaching solution to extract asparagine out of the potato feed. Thermally processing the leached potatoes will result in a potato product having a lower level of acrylamide than a non-leached, thermally processed potato product.

Method for reducing asparagine in food products

In fabricated, thermally processed snack foods, the addition of one of a select group of amino acids to the recipe for the food inhibits the formation of acrylamide during the thermal processing. The amino acid can come from the group of cysteine, lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, and arginine and can be a commercially available amino acid or in a free form in an ingredient added to the food. Amino acids can be added to fabricated foods at the admix stage or by exposing raw food stock to a solution containing a concentration of the amino acid additive.

Method for reducing acrylamide formation in thermally processed foods

A process and apparatus for a method for reducing the amount of acrylamide in thermally processed foods. This invention permits the production of foods having significantly reduced levels of acrylamide. The method relies on interfering with an acrylamide formation pathway that begins with the amino acid asparagine.

Olestra, a low-calorie natural fat and oil substitute, that is normally a viscous semi-solid at ambient temperatures is rendered substantially permanently liquid and pumpable by application of shear mixing from the semi-solid state, slow cooling from the melted state, or shear mixing and slow cooling from the melted state. Slow cooling inhibits the formation of the crystalline network that is characteristic of the viscous semi-solid form, and shear mixing further inhibits such formation. Olestra processed according to the invention advantageously returns to the semi-solid form after use in snack food manufacturing, thus providing the desired passive oil loss control. The invention greatly improves the practical handling of Olestra in fried food manufacturing processes.

Interconvertible solid and liquid states of Olestra

Fatty alcohol succinic acid esters of the formula:

Substituted succinate esters and low-calorie oils containing them

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