Abstract:
A composition comprising a native gellan gum which, based on the polyfunctionality, can provide a gel composition resistant to freezing and thawing, a dry gel and a jelly prepared therefrom, a gel like a rice cake, a food alternative to a rice cake, a simulated food, a thermally insulated composition, and a coolant; and the use of the above composition as additives having unique functions, for example, a dispersion stabilizer, an additive for a thickening composition, a heat resistance-imparting agent, a syneresis inhibitor, a foam stabilizer, and an improver for the sense of taste and texture of a food.
Abstract:
Compositions of plant carbohydrates for dietary supplements and nutritional support for promotion and maintenance of good health. Defined nutritionally effective amounts of one to eleven essential saccharides, glyconutrients, are used in various inventive compositions as dietary supplements. The dietary composition herein can include phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, herbal extracts, and other non-toxic nutrients. The glyconutritional dietary supplement herein provides essential saccharides which are the building blocks of glycoproteins. These compositions, when administered orally or topically, have been found to improve the well being of mammals suffering from a variety of disorders.
Abstract:
A process is described for producing modified inulin having an average chain length of at least 8 monosaccharide units, which is modified by treatment with a reducing agent, such as hydrogen with a transition metal catalyst, sodium borohydride or electrochemically. The reduced inulin can be further modified e.g. by oxidation, carboxyalkylation, hydroxyalkylation or cyanoethylation, or a combined derivatisation. It is suitable as a food ingredient or as a pharmaceutical aid.
Abstract:
Reduced-fat food dispersions comprising an aqueous dispersion of sugar and an aggregate of microcrystalline cellulose and a gum selected from galactomannan gum, glucomannan gum and mixtures thereof exhibit the ability to set, have sugar bloom stability and mimic the rheology of full fat chocolate coatings. These dispersions are useful, for example, in food coatings, food inclusions and fudge. A method for setting of a high sugar content dispersion to a solid which solid is a soft or a firm solid at room temperature is also provided.
Abstract:
Dietary fibre composition and drink made from the composition with a high content of soluble dietary fibre, wherein the dispersability is improved, and the rate of sedimentation is reduced. The dietary fibre composition consists of granulate particles coated with modified starch.
Abstract:
A spread containing one or more fibre ingredients, wherein: (a) the total level of fibre ingredients is 18 wt% or more; (b) the fibre ingredient is a non-starch polysaccharide having an average molecular weight of more than 800; (c) the fibre ingredient is a non-starch polysaccharide wherein the sugar units are predominantly connected via links which are non-degradable by the enzymes secreted by the human body; (d) the spread has a stress strain relation with a maximum stress occurring at a strain ELEMENT max of 0.001 to 0.3, and a stress delta max at a strain ELEMENT max of 0.01 to 100 kPa and a ratio of the plastic stress delta p to delta max ( delta p/ delta max) of 0.1 to 0.95.
Abstract:
A hydrated lipophilic composition comprising a lipophilic component with an aqueous component in which the water is immobilized. A method for preparing the hydrated lipophilic composition is also provided.
Abstract:
The polysaccharide araban is extracted from sugar beet by a novel modification of the known alkaline extraction process in which, after neutralisation of the alkaline liquor, the liquor is ultrafiltered and the retentate is dried to obtain dry araban. Araban, obtained by the above process or otherwise, is incubated with alpha -L-arabinofuranosidase to cleave most or all of the branches from the araban. The debranched araban forms an aqueous gel which has the properties of a fat mimetic and may be used as a fat substitute in foods. Isolated debranched araban derived from crude sugar beet araban is a novel substance. Araban itself may be used in the novel applications of emulsification and encapsulation of oils, for example flavour oils.
Abstract:
This invention relates to cereal bars comprising high amounts of dietary fiber, more particularly to cereal bars comprising soluble dietary fiber chosen from fructo-oligosaccharide and/or inulin and insoluble dietary fiber from the same plant source, and to a method for the manufacture of said cereal bars. Said high dietary fiber cereal bars have a low weight percentage of fructo-oligosaccharides and/or inulin while still having acceptable organoleptic properties. Specific aspects of the invention concern said insoluble dietary fiber in the form of particles, a method to produce said insoluble dietary fiber particles and a binding syrup comprising said insoluble dietary fiber particles for use in cereal bars.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a food product comprising at least 1.5%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%), or more, by weight total ingredients of a low bitter chicory plant material or flour. The present invention also provides a method for obtaining a chicory product with reduced bitterness, comprising blanching chicory roots or root chips, drying the blanched chicory root chips, and optionally grinding the dried chicory root chips and incorporating it into flour, dough, or other food products. Also provided is a method for obtaining a chicory taproot with reduced bitterness, comprising cultivating a chicory plant at a soil nitrogen level of 150 lbs per acre or less in the upper 3 feet of the soil.