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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1989
Karen B Foehse, Plymouth, MN (US);
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are barley flour fractions having concentrated levels of soluble dietary fiber ('SDF'). The barley flour fractions have SDF contents ranging from about 18% to 30%. Also disclosed are dry milling concentration methods for making the high soluble dietary fiber content barley flour fractions. The milling methods involve size reducing a barley flour, especially a 70% to 80% extraction flour, having a native SDF level to a controlled particle size distribution to form a size reduced flour. This is accomplished by a single pass pinmilling step followed by particle size classification at an opening of 30-60 microns to separate the size reduced flour into a starchy fraction and the present barley flour fraction having a 1.2X-5X concentration of SDF compared to the native SDF level.