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Ready-to-eat cereals

US4588596A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 24, 1983
Grant dateMay 13, 1986
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Expiry dateOct 24, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23L7/117
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A new class of ready-to-eat cereals is disclosed. These products are baked bite sized pieces produced from a cookie dough, but having a bowl life of at least 3 minutes, and preferably containing fat in the amount between 3 and 17 percent, in which an effective bowl-life extending amount of an additive selected from the group free fatty acid, edible insoluble metallic salt of fatty acid, and mixtures thereof, is added. A preferred additive for providing bowl life in emminently satisfactory ranges is magnesium stearate.

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