Cooking of Salt Free or Reduced Salt Breakfast Cereals

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20120269931A1
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13390293

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Disclosed are R-T-E cereal compositions especially in the form of flakes of reduced salt content which nonetheless provide enhanced cooked cereal flavor and which are characterized by a pH ranging from about 3.5-5.7 and a conductivity ranging from about 0.1-2.8 mS/cm. Also disclosed are methods for the preparation of such R-T-E cereals. The present methods comprise cooking a cereal to form a cooked cereal dough in the presence of added edible acid and a water soluble salts to provide a cooked cereal dough or mass. The combination of ingredients and cooking conditions provides cooked cereal dough and R-T-E cereals prepared therefrom which provide finished breakfast cereal product having improved appearance, flavor and texture as well as in improvements in cooking times.

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GENERAL MILLS INCNUMBER ONE GENERAL MILLS BLVD MINNEAPOLIS MN 55426

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bindzus, Wolfgang Penthaz, CH 13 77
Hahn, Stephanie Pully, CH 2 3

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