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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2021
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven J. Cox, Long Lake, MN (US);
David J. Domingues, Plymouth, MN (US);
Roger G. Fuentes, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Paul Henderson, Lakeville, MN (US);
Kara M. Hobart, New Hope, MN (US);
Olivia Murch, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vani Vemulapalli, Plymouth, MN (US);
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A bread product is produced by forming a dough piece, creating at least one score in the dough piece, applying an adhesive to the dough piece with the adhesive extending across the score, freezing the dough piece to produce a frozen dough piece, and baking the dough piece, causing the adhesive to melt while establishing a bread product having, in a central region of the bread product, what was once a score held together by the adhesive during the early stages of baking, an internal exposed region. The outlined production steps can be re-arranged, so long as the scoring and adhesive application is performed prior to thawing of the dough piece.
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