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Enhancing aroma of food products

A food and product technology, applied in the field of food product application enhancers, can solve the problems of weakening attractiveness and nutrition

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-01-30
NESTEC SA
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[0003] For these and other reasons, prepackaged and frozen food products available in the prior art would have diminished attractiveness and nutritional

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[0024] The present invention provides food products with improved or enhanced realism. In other words, the improved or enhanced food product of the present invention has an appearance, smell, taste or nutrition, etc. that is more similar to that traditionally prepared from the intended ingredients (the "starting" food). Properties such as appearance, smell, taste or nutrition are often referred to in the art as "sensory" properties. Accordingly and in other words, the present invention provides food products with enhanced organoleptic properties.

[0025] The present invention also provides methods and apparatus for manufacturing these improved or enhanced food products which, in preferred embodiments, can be easily integrated into existing food product manufacturing methods and apparatus. According to the present invention, a food product is improved or enhanced by dispensing or applying one or more food enhancing agents onto or into the food product in controlled amounts an...

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This invention provides processes and apparatus for enhancing the aroma of food products. Aroma-enhancing agents are applied or dispensed onto food products during their manufacture by food-grade controlled-droplet dispensing heads (or head). In preferred embodiments, the dispensing heads are controlled by a controller, such as a programmed PC- type computer, in dependence on sensor data, such as electromechanical, optical, or image sensor data. The controller and sensors operate so that different food items can have selected aroma- enhancing agents properly applied or dispensed without waste or overspray. The invention also provides food products, the aroma of which have been enhanced according to the provided processes and the apparatus with aroma-enhancing agents.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of food products and food product manufacture, and in particular provides enhanced food products comprising enhancers, and for application to food products using a food grade controlled droplet dispensing head, such as a food grade inkjet type dispensing head. Enhancer methods and devices. Background technique [0002] The appeal and perhaps even the taste of food products are enhanced by proper visual presentation, consistency and smell; their nutritional content is enhanced by preserving naturally occurring nutrients during preparation. However, food products, especially frozen food products, that have been manufactured from ingredients, packaged and then further processed during preparation can have an unattractive appearance, impaired taste and reduced nutritional content. For example, a reheated pre-frozen bread product can have an undesirable and unappetizing consistency; a pre-frozen meat product that ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A23L1/00A23L1/22B65D81/34A23L5/10A23L27/00A23L35/00
CPCA23L1/22008A23L1/0061B65D2581/345A23P20/18A23L27/70
Inventor M·D·贝尔佐夫斯基U·尼尔松R·夏玛
Owner NESTEC SA