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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2011
Timothy Vande Giessen, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Sylvia Schonauer, Battle Creek, MI (US);
James Kincaid, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Katherine Nemeth, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Mary Steele, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Helbert Almeida Dominguez, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Aileen Diana Tanojo, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Timothy Vande Giessen, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Sylvia Schonauer, Battle Creek, MI (US);
James Kincaid, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Katherine Nemeth, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Mary Steele, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Helbert Almeida Dominguez, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Aileen Diana Tanojo, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a reduced sugar coating for coating a variety of food products including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, trail mix, energy bars, granola bars, cookies, cakes, pies, crackers, and muffins. The reduced sugar coating provides a frosted appearance to the food products and permits up to 50% reduction of the sugar in a coating composition while maintaining the taste, texture and function of a full sugar coating composition. The removed sugar is replaced by a type 4 resistant starch in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.0 parts of type 4 resistant starch per every 3 parts of removed sugar. Preferably the source of the type 4 resistant starch is potato, however the source can also comprise wheat, corn, rice, tapioca, quinoa, a legume, barley, banana, sorghum, oat, millet, sweet potato, or mixtures thereof.