Patent · US Expired

Bleaching of vegetable pulps

US5094866A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 5, 1990
Grant dateMar 10, 1992
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Expiry dateJun 5, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23L19/10
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Extracted vegetable pulps are bleached to a high degree of whiteness, thus rendering them more attractive as food supplements, by (a) treating such pulp in an acid medium at a pH of up to 2.5 and for a period of time of at least 10 minutes, (b) next washing the pulp thus treated to an efficiency of at least 80%, and (c) then reacting the washed pulp with an aqueous alkaline solution of hydrogen peroxide, in the presence of an H.sub.2 O.sub.2 stabilizer.

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