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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:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mary Beth Meade, Far Hills, NJ (US);
Assignee:
CPC International Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426633 ; 426607 ; 426611 ;
Abstract
A reduced fat and reduced calorie nut butter composition, particularly a peanut butter, having the texture and organoleptic characteristics of full fat nut butters. The nut butter has up to about 60% reduced fat by weight and up to about 34% reduced calories by weight. The composition is produced with full fat nuts and roasted, partially defatted nuts and/or roasted, partially defatted nut flour, a low or no calorie triacylglycerol oil and a low or no calorie bulking agent. The composition also has a nut solids non fat level from about 20-34% and a ratio of total non fat solids to total oil of from about 2.0:1 to about 2.7:1.