The Procter Gamble Company

Lee Michael Teras

Stephen Paul Zimmerman

John Russell Herring

John Keeney Howie

Maria Dolores Martinez-Serna Villagran

David Arthur Lanner

Peter Yau Tak Lin

David Vincent Zyzak

Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh

Marko Stojanovic

Robert Alan Sanders

Richard Gerald Schafermeyer

Charles Edward Jones

Mark Joseph Fiteny

Russell William Groves

Robrt Alan Sanders

A method for the reduction of acrylamide in corn-based food products, corn-based food products having reduced levels of acrylamide, and an article of commerce. In one aspect, the method comprises reducing the level of asparagine in a corn-based food material before final heating (e.g., cooking). In another aspect, the method comprises adding to a corn-based food material an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing the amide group of free asparagine. In yet another aspect, an article of commerce communicates to the consumer that a corn-based food product has reduced or low levels of acrylamide or asparagine.

Method for reducing acrylamide in corn-based foods, corn-based foods having reduced levels of acrylamide, and article of commerce

Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch. Preferably, the snack chips have raised surface features comprising from about 12% to about 40% large surface features; from about 20% to about 40% medium surface features; and from about 25% to about 60% small surface features. In one embodiment, the average thickness of the snack chip is from about 1 mm to about 3 mm; the average thickness of raised surface features is from about 2.3 mm to about 3.2 mm; the maximum thickness of the chip is less than about 5.5 mm; and the coefficient of variation of the chip thickness is greater than about 15%.

Method for constrain-frying snack pieces having intact surface features

Process for making tortilla chips with controlled surface bubbling

Snack food

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Lee Michael Teras