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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert N Carpenter, Prior Lake, MN (US);
Kevin J Finnie, Green Bay, WI (US);
Robert L Olsen, Tempe, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Schreiber Foods, Inc., Green Bay, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426578 ; 426582 ; 426585 ; 426602 ; 426613 ;
Abstract
An imitation cheese composition is made with less than 2% protein and/or less than 1% casein protein and comprises a) about 3% to about 30% starch; b) about 0% to about 30% edible lipid material; c) about 20% to about 60% water; d) about 0.5% to about 25% non-starch carbohydrates; and e) about 0.5% to about 5% hydrocolloid stabilizers; and optionally contains up to about 2% cheese flavor and up to about 2% color.