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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Ghl Specialty Flours, Llc, Cedarburg, WI (US);
John M. Lipscomb, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Omar I. Rodriguez, Cedarburg, WI (US);
GHL Specialty Flours, LLC, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Abstract
A gelling food product constituent extrudate that forms a gel when water is added that is used as an ingredient of a food product in place of a gelling gum, like guar gum, xanthan gum, or carrageenan. The gelling extrudate is composed of cold-water soluble gelling pregelatinized starch formed of starch in a cereal grain and/or legume containing admixture modified by extrusion at pressures greater than 2000 PSI that causes the extrudate to gel when mixed with water. The gelling extrudate preferably also is composed of other starch in the admixture extrusion modified into different molecular weight polymers of a cold-water soluble gellant that also polymerizes and forms a gel, preferably a hydrocolloid gel, more preferably a self-gelling gel, even more preferably a thermo-reversible gel, when mixed with water. When mixed with water, a gelling extrudate of the present invention forms a thicker gel whose viscosity increases over time.