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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2003
Vincent Allen Elder, Carrollton, TX (US);
John Gregory Fulcher, Dallas, TX (US);
Henry Kin-hang Leung, Plano, TX (US);
Michael Grant Topor, Carrollton, TX (US);
Vincent Allen Elder, Carrollton, TX (US);
John Gregory Fulcher, Dallas, TX (US);
Henry Kin-Hang Leung, Plano, TX (US);
Michael Grant Topor, Carrollton, TX (US);
Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
In fabricated, thermally processed snack foods, the addition of one of a select group of amino acids to the recipe for the food inhibits the formation of acrylamide during the thermal processing. The amino acid can come from the group of cysteine, lysine, glycine, histidine, alanine, methionine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, phenylalanine, valine, and arginine and can be a commercially available amino acid or in a free form in an ingredient added to the food. Amino acids can be added to fabricated foods at the admix stage or by exposing raw food stock to a solution containing a concentration of the amino acid additive.