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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1993
Yen C Hsieh, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Anthony P Richards, Gary, IN (US);
Jose Alvarado, Chicago, IL (US);
Benito Romanach, West Chester, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for producing individual, crunch-confectionery-coated edible nuts. The raw, unblanched nuts are first coated with a film-forming polysaccharide to maintain the skins adhered to the nuts in a durable polysaccharide coating. The coated nuts are then subjected to shear mixing, e.g., in a pan coater, during which sucrose syrup is applied to the polysaccharide-coated nuts. Heat is applied to the nuts during shear mixing to remove moisture and to thereby form a crystalline coating, which is then partially melted to form a crystalline-amorphous coating on top of the polysaccharide coating on the individual nuts.