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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eldon C Lee, New Milford, CT (US);
John S Tandy, Litchfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ; A23L / ; A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426 96 ; 426 97 ; 426302 ; 426649 ; 426650 ;
Abstract
The taste of foods and beverages containing less than a normal amount of sodium chloride is enhanced by addition of a food-acceptable encapsulated ammonium salt. Food-acceptable carrier agents for encapsulating food-acceptable ammonium salts include maltodextrin, gum arabic and gelatinized starches, in particular, starches which have a high amylopectin content, and in particular, a gelatinized starch hydrolysate debranched at 1,6-alpha-D-glycosidic linkages. The ammonium salts are usefully prepared with ammonia recovered during spray-drying of fermented soy sauce and by recovering ammonia formed by acid hydrolysis of a protein.