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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1994
George E Brown, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Edward C Schwab, New Brighton, MN (US);
Terry R Harrington, Albertville, MN (US);
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are puffed multilayered R-T-E breakfast cereal pieces and methods of preparation. In preferred embodiments, the cereal pieces have at least three cereal layers. The bulk density ranges from about 0.06 to 0.15 g/cc. The methods for fabricating the present multilayered R-T-E cereal pieces comprise: A) preparing at least three separate sheets of cooked cereal dough(s), B) layering the sheets with pressure to form a laminated sheet, C) forming individual pieces from the laminated sheet, D) drying the pieces to 9% to 13% moisture, and E) high intensity microwave puffing the pieces to form R-T-E cereals with multiple layers. The high intensity microwave field is characterized by a field strength of about 150 to 350 V/cm.