Edible plastic dispersion having a rapid gel-setting starch

US5338560A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Van den Bergh Foods Co., division of Conopco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Leendert Hendrik Wesdorp · Ellicott City, US
• Robert A. Madsen · Ellicott City, US
• James J. Kasica · Whitehouse Station, US
• Marie Kowblansky · Springfield, US
• Anthony Morrison · Bedford, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1992
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1994
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S426/804
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An edible plastic dispersion not having a continuous fat phase, including at least two condensed phases, at least one of which is continuous, the dispersion comprising a first gel-forming composition and a second gel-forming composition containing 1-8 times the critical concentrations of a gelling starch having a rheological property in an aqueous dispersion characterized by a one-half G'.sub.max value at no more than about 7,250 seconds when prepared at a concentration to yield a log G'.sub.max value of 5.0 at 15,000 seconds at 11.degree. C. provided that the aqueous dispersion of the gelling starch is initially prepared at 0 to 40.degree. C.