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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2000
Lloyd E Metzger, Champlin, MN (US);
Christopher Jones, Great Falls, MT (US);
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Improved wheat milling processes for the production of white flour involves selecting a hard white wheat variety for milling, milling the hard white wheat into white patent flour, isolating a high bran stream, size reducing the high bran stream and sifting the size reduced high bran stream into a fine bran and bran flour fractions. The bran flour fraction is then blended with the white patent flour to form a high fiber finish flour which nonetheless is characterized by a white color. The wheat milling processes provide improvements in current wheat milling to increase the milling extraction rate for flour without a decrease in flour quality.