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Coating cereal with fruit juice

US4880645A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 14, 1987
Grant dateNov 14, 1989
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Expiry dateSep 14, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23P20/105
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention teaches sweetening a comestible such as a ready-to-eat cereal with a coating comprising a sweetening syrup having from 9% to 85% by weight reducing sugars and a pectin solution. The present invention also teaches a method for sweetening a comestible with a sweetening syrup comprising forming a mixture of sweetening syrup and a pectin solution and coating said mixture onto the surface of the comestible and drying same to a desired moisture content for packaging.

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