公开(公告)号：US06572910B2

公开(公告)日：2003-06-03

申请号：US09866007

申请日：2001-05-24

申请人： David Arthur Lanner ,  Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh ,  Stephen Paul Zimmerman ,  Lee Michael Teras ,  Charles Edward Jones ,  John Russell Herring ,  Russell William Groves ,  Mark Joseph Fiteny

发明人： David Arthur Lanner ,  Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh ,  Stephen Paul Zimmerman ,  Lee Michael Teras ,  Charles Edward Jones ,  John Russell Herring ,  Russell William Groves ,  Mark Joseph Fiteny

IPC分类号： A23L1164

CPC分类号： A23L7/13 ,  A23L7/117 ,  Y10S426/808

摘要： Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch. Preferably, the snack chips have raised surface features comprising from about 12% to about 40% large surface features; from about 20% to about 40% medium surface features; and from about 25% to about 60% small surface features. In one embodiment, the average thickness of the snack chip is from about 1 mm to about 3 mm; the average thickness of raised surface features is from about 2.3 mm to about 3.2 mm; the maximum thickness of the chip is less than about 5.5 mm; and the coefficient of variation of the chip thickness is greater than about 15%.