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Process of milling hard white wheat and products thereof

US6372281B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 25, 2000
Grant dateApr 16, 2002
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Expiry dateFeb 25, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23L7/198
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Improved wheat milling processes for the production of white flour involves selecting a hard white wheat variety for milling, milling the hard white wheat into white patent flour, isolating a high bran stream, size reducing the high bran stream and sifting the size reduced high bran stream into a fine bran and bran flour fractions. The bran flour fraction is then blended with the white patent flour to form a high fiber finish flour which nonetheless is characterized by a white color. The wheat milling processes provide improvements in current wheat milling to increase the milling extraction rate for flour without a decrease in flour quality.

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