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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:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2005
Applicants:
Daniel R. Green, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Christine Nowakowski, Plymouth, MN (US);
Inventors:
Daniel R. Green, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Christine Nowakowski, Plymouth, MN (US);
Assignee:
General Mills IP Holdings II, LLC, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/216 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A ready to eat breakfast cereal is prepared by coating dried cereal base pieces with a low sugar sweetener such as a high conversion maltodextrin or low conversion corn syrup that includes a high potency sweetener. The low sugar coating has a sugars content of less than 10% yet provides taste, texture, appearance and bowl life that mimics presweetened RTE cereals having a sucrose based coating.