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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eugene Terry Finocchiaro, Milton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Opta Food Ingredients, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426582 ; 426580 ; 426601 ; 426603 ; 426658 ; 426661 ; 426663 ; 127 38 ;
Abstract
Substantially fat free, reduced fat and low fat margarine-like spreads, dairy spreads and cream cheeses that have the taste, mouthfeel and textural properties of equivalent full fat spreads are described. The spreads contain a starch based texturizing agent that is derived from pregelatinized, high amylose starch. The presence of the texturizing agent functions to viscosify the spread in the absence of traditional viscosifying or thickening agents, such as gelatin and emulsifiers.