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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1998
John F Stevens, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Emmett L Cook, Geneva, IL (US);
C Lynn Theiss, Naperville, IL (US);
Newly Weds Foods, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A food product includes an edible base and an outer coating that contains a whitener such that the resulting food product has a white light color. The whitener includes titanium dioxide, white dye, or other substance that imparts a white color. A process for making the food product includes incorporating a whitener into the process by such means as addition of the whitener into a dry batter mix, addition of the whitener to the water used to hydrate the dry batter mix, passing the edible base through an aqueous solution of the whitener, addition of the whitener after a batter coating has been applied to the edible base, or a combination of the above.