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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas L Carpenter, Shamong, NJ (US);
William Fisher, Elkorn, NE (US);
Thomas A Smith, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Foods Corp., White Plains, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ; A23P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426 89 ; 426 93 ; 426 96 ; 426103 ; 426307 ;
Abstract
The present invention teaches sweetening a comestible such as a ready-to-eat cereal with a coating comprising a sweetening syrup having from 9% to 85% by weight reducing sugars and a pectin solution. The present invention also teaches a method for sweetening a comestible with a sweetening syrup comprising forming a mixture of sweetening syrup and a pectin solution and coating said mixture onto the surface of the comestible and drying same to a desired moisture content for packaging.