Kraft Foods, Inc.

Kraft General Foods, Inc.

Maurice Nasrallah

Fred Sadeghi

Fouad Z Saleeb

Joseph E Spradlin

Parviz Ghossi

Antonia B Nasrallah

John R Magnifico

James J Wang

James Jerling Wang

Bottle

A unitary beverage container includes a main body defining a container volume in which a beverage is contained. A top of the main body includes a channel disposed horizontally therealong as well as an uppermost bisecting ridge extending from one side of the main body to the other and a respective remainder portion on each side of the ridge sloping downwardly away from the ridge. A bottom of the main body has a lowermost continuous base surface and a central concavity extending inwardly therefrom. The central concavity is particularly formed by a horizontal recess surface and a peripheral recess band sloped radially inward. A flexible straw has a proximal end fluidly connected with the container volume and a distal end having an aperture therein which is located in the channel of the top. A holding mechanism removably holds the distal end of the flexible straw in the channel. In order to fill the beverage container, the bottom includes a filling conduit extending from the central concavity. This filling conduit is heated on the interior only at a location in the central concavity, and then pinched off and closed horizontally in the central concavity after filling to seal the container.

Beverage container with bottom cavity

Improved yield and gelatin quality is obtained by extracting conditioned collagen-containing material with water at lower temperature and shorter time conditions than previously used to remove high quality gelatin as quickly as possible. Very high quality gelatin is extracted initially. Acid conditioning yield is also improved by controlling pH between 1.5-2.0.

Extraction process for gelatin

A sucrose and fructose-containing dry food mix and method of manufacture is disclosed. The fructose is crystalline fructose having less than 10% of its particles smaller than 150 microns, a flavor having a low water activity particularly spray dried in a modified starch and malto-dextrin matrix and an acidic or neutral anti-caking agent. The food mix does not cake over an extended period of time.

Sucrose and fructose-containing food mix and process

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Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Maurice Nasrallah