Nestec S.a.

Robert Gerald Odermatt

Lorenzo Panattoni

Jonas Peter Halden

Thomas W Hauser

David Roeschli

A process for preparing a pasta product by extruding dry or semi-dry ground cereal. The dry or semi-dry ground cereal has a water content of less than about 20 percent by weight of the ground cereal. A pasta product prepared by the process is disclosed.

Process for manufacturing a pasta product

A process for manufacturing a tridimensional pasta product by preparing a mixture of cereal flour or semolina and water; kneading the mixture to obtain a dough; injecting the dough into a mold having a tri-dimensional shape under conditions such that the dough undergoes substantially no expansion in the mold during injection; and removing the dough from the mold to provide an injection molded pasta product having the tri-dimensional shape. These molded tridimensional pasta products possess organoleptic properties which are superior to those of traditional pasta products.

Pasta product and manufacture thereof

A granular food product is prepared by mixing a molten fat with an amylaceous material, extruding the mixture in strands, cooling the strands and then subdividing them into sections and projecting the sections through a grill to size-reduce the sections into granules.

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Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Robert Gerald Odermatt