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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marcel Buhler, Tolochenaz, CH;
Thang Ho Dac, Le Mont-s/Lausanne, CH;
Hugh Hose, Yverdon, CH;
Robert D Wood, Lausanne, CH;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426 49 ; 426-8 ; 426 52 ;
Abstract
Vegetables and fruits are heat-treated to blanch them and then cooled. The heat-treated vegetables are fermented with a lactic bacteria in the presence of water to obtain a fermented food and water of fermentation having a pH of from 3.1 to 4.4. The water of fermentation is drained from the fermented food, which then is washed. The fermented food, at a pH of from 3.8 to 4.4, then is pasteurized.