Nestec S.a.

Nestac S.a.

Philipp Paul Meyer

Eugene Scoville

G&ouml;ran Jaelminger

Jurg Lechthaler

Goran Jaelminger

Luca Rusconi

Thomas Wilhelm Hauser

Shiok Guat Teh

Armando Dos Santos Pousa

Daniele Juengling

Marianne Rudberg-Tamm

Tian-Seng Toh

Othman Mohamad Yusoff

A fully cooked, shelf stable or frozen noodle product having a dry matter content between about 30% to about 45% by weight. This product contains a cooked flour or semolina of a starchy plant, softened water, a cooked starch, an ionic gelling agent, an emulsifier, a cation which has formed a gel with the ionic gelling agent, and an oil. If desired, an acid can be included to provide a pH between about 3.7 to about 4.5.

Fully cooked, shelf stable or frozen noodles

Full-moisture, shelf-stable pasta product having a pH of about 3.7 to 4.5, and comprising a cooked or pre-cooked pasta having a dry-matter content of from about 30 to 45 percent by weight, an acid, and an oil. A process for manufacturing a full-moisture, shelf-stable pasta product, which comprises preparing a mixture having a dry-matter content of 60 to 75 weight percent and comprising a cereal flour or semolina and added water, forming a portioned pasta product, blanching the pasta product, dipping the blanched pasta product into acidified water at ambient temperature, and packaging the pasta product.

Process for manufacturing a pasta product

The present invention is directed to a noodle product of extended shelf life and to a method of preparing the noodle product. More specifically, the present invention includes a full moisture extended shelf life noodle product of outstanding organoleptical quality which is easily prepared with little or no further cooking by the consumer. Additionally, the present invention is directed to a manufacturing process of the noodle product which can be easily performed using conventional machinery.

Extended shelf life noodle product and process of manufacture

A full moisture, shelf stable or frozen noodle product having a dry matter content between about 30% to about 45% by weight. This product contains a cooked flour or semolina of a starchy plant, softened water, a cooked starch, an ionic gelling agent, an emulsifier, a cation which has formed a gel with the ionic gelling agent, and an oil. If desired, an acid can be included to provide a pH between about 3.7 to about 4.5.

Noodle product of the Koay Teow type

Process for preparing fully cooked packaged shelf stable or frozen

Process and apparatus for manufacturing noodles

Process and equipment for manufacturing process pasta, in which a mixture of cereal flour or semolina and water having a water content of 25-40% is prepared, the mixture is kneaded and it is extruded by pressing it through an extrusion die with the aid of a gear pump.

Manufacture of pasta

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Benglen, Switzerland

Philipp Paul Meyer