Kellogg Company

Mary E Steele

Pradip K Roy

Guoshen Yang

Stephen B Richey

Myung Hee Lohman

Brian M Reifsteck

Sylvia Schonauer

James G Kincaid

Helbert David Almeida Dominguez

Timothy Vande Giessen

Katherine Nemeth

Aileen Diana Tanojo

Disclosed is a reduced sugar coating for coating a variety of food products including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, trail mix, energy bars, granola bars, cookies, cakes, pies, crackers, and muffins. The reduced sugar coating provides a frosted appearance to the food products and permits up to 50% reduction of the sugar in a coating composition while maintaining the taste, texture and function of a full sugar coating composition. The removed sugar is replaced by a type 4 resistant starch in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.0 parts of type 4 resistant starch per every 3 parts of removed sugar. Preferably the source of the type 4 resistant starch is potato, however the source can also comprise wheat, corn, rice, tapioca, quinoa, a legume, barley, banana, sorghum, oat, millet, sweet potato, or mixtures thereof.

Ready-to-eat cereal with reduced sugar coating

A multi-piece food product () comprising a plurality of strands (A-K) that are extruded and aggregated to form an aesthetically pleasing food product is provided. A formulation used to make each of the strands (A-K) includes a mixture comprising at least 20% sweetener, at least 15% starchy material, and at least 1% fruit by weight based a total dry weight of the mixture to yield a starch-based confectionary food product. One process for forming the multi-piece food product () includes extruding a food stream from a slurry, dividing the food stream into three separate food streams (A,B), injecting color, flavor, and ascorbic acid into the food streams (A,B), conveying the food streams (A,B) into a former () and extruding the strands (A-K) therefrom, forming the strands (A,B) into an aggregate food mass (), cooling the food mass (), and cutting the food mass () into individual portions.

Multi-piece food product and method for making the same

Multi-piece fruit snack

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Battle Creek, MI, United States of America

Mary E Steele