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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gijsbert Kuil, Vlaardingen, NL;
Johannes Frederik Mulder, Vlaardingen, NL;
Assignee:
Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/40 ;
Abstract
Provided are soup or sauce base concentrates which are ambient stable concentrates which yield, upon dilution with an aqueous liquid, a finished sauce, soup or gravy. Ambient stability is helped by a low water activity wherein the soup or sauce base concentrate includes at least on water activity lowering component such that the composition has a water activity of below 0.92 and where salt and starch are present in the soup or sauce base concentrate in a ratio of at least 1:0.5 to at most 1:7.