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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
Kraft Foods R & D, Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Olaf C. Kortum, Neubiberg, DE;
Richard Ramstoetter, Siegsdorf, DE;
Patricia Kemalasari Sudyatma, Munich, DE;
Jelena Hoffmann, Munich, DE;
Kraft Foods R&D, Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Abstract
The disclosure herein provides a process for the manufacture of a multiple texture food product. The process includes providing a dairy material, freezing the dairy material by cooling it to a temperature of −2° C. or less, aerating the frozen dairy material, shaping the aerated, frozen dairy material, and depositing the shaped, aerated, frozen dairy material on or between one or more layers of a food material which is not the aerated dairy material. The aerated dairy material has a Stevens firmness of 20 or more at a temperature in the range of from 5 to 10° C. and a water activity (a) of 0.90 or more. The disclosure herein further provides an aerated dairy material as well as a multiple texture food product which comprises a core of the aerated dairy material and a shell of a food material which is not the aerated dairy material.