Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Versuni Holding B.v.

Weihua Lu

Guangming Su

Yun Chen

Wen Sun

Jingwei Tan

Weimin Xiao

Ming Sun

Xiaoyun Kui

Yafang Jin

Donghai Yu

Xiao Yun Kui

The present disclosure relates to a device for cooking a starch-based food item. The device comprises a vessel for receiving a quantity of the starch-based food item with an initial weight; a weighing scale for weighting the food item during cooking; a heater for heating the starch-based food item; and a controller coupled to the weighing scale and the heater. The controller causes the heater to cook the starch-based food item at a first temperature for a first time duration, the first temperature is higher than a starch gelatinization temperature; and causes the heater, based on the weighing scale reading, to cook the starch-based food item at a second temperature for a second time, where the second temperature is higher than the first temperature and above 150° C. The device makes cooked food healthier and more appetizing, which is beneficial to health especially for individuals with diabetes and obesity.

Cooking appliance and method for starch-based foodstuffs

The invention relates to a monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a processing status of a food item under processing in a food processor, the monitoring apparatus comprising a sensor operable to determine characteristic information related to the food item in the food processor, a controller configured to provide a control signal to the food processor to control an operation of the food processor when the determined characteristicinformation or a rate of change of the determined characteristic information meets a predetermined criteria.

Monitoring apparatus and a food processing device using the same

An apparatus and a method for soaking foodstuff in a liquid under set acid pH conditions of the liquid is described. The foodstuff is soaked in the liquid so as to reduce a content of phytic acid and/or phytate contained in the foodstuff. The apparatus has a vessel for receiving the foodstuff and the liquid for soaking the foodstuff within the vessel. The apparatus further has an amount determining system which is configured to determine an amount of the liquid and/or an amount of the foodstuff to be used for the soaking within the vessel. Further, the apparatus has a pH adjusting system configured to perform an electrolysis of at least a portion of the liquid for adjusting a pH level of the liquid.

Cooking apparatus for reducing a content of phytic acid and phytate contained in foodstuff

A device for cooking a starch-based food item is provided in which there is a drying cycle at a temperature below the gelatinization temperature and a cooking cycle at a temperature above the gelatinization temperature. The drying provides a relative weight drop by a first amount and the cooking provides a further relative weight drop. The weight is monitored during drying and cooking to provide feedback control of the duration of the drying and cooking times. The device and method make healthy food with reduced rapid digestible starch (RDS) and increased resistant starch (RS) content. In this way the glycemic index (GI) of a food item is reduced and the resistant starch is increased, which is beneficial to health especially for diabetes and obese groups.

Disclosed is a food preparation apparatus () comprising a food preparation chamber and a pressure chamber () for generating steam coupled to the food preparation chamber through a conduit (), wherein the pressure chamber comprises a heating element () for converting water into steam; and the conduit comprises an auto-relief valve () arranged to release the steam at a set pressure above atmospheric pressure from the pressure chamber into the food preparation chamber, thereby creating superheated steam in the food preparation chamber by the rapid expansion of the released volume of the above atmospheric pressure (saturated) steam. A method () of preparing food in such a food preparation apparatus () is also disclosed.

Growing community of inventors

Shanghai, China

Weihua Lu