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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:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernhard van Lengerich, Plymouth, MN (US);
Merle K Larson, Dassel, MN (US);
Assignee:
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426620 ; 426621 ; 426619 ; 426622 ; 426615 ;
Abstract
Disclosed are cooked dried farinaceous food products such as cooked cereal doughs, ready-to-eat cereals and grain based snacks fabricated from such cooked cereal doughs containing high levels of soluble fiber supplied at least in part by inulin or other .beta.-2 fructofuranose. The cereals contain about 0.1 to 17% added inulin. The inulin ingredient can be incorporated into the dough and/or topically applied. Also provided are methods for preparing such cooked cereal doughs and finished farinaceous products.