Vegetable Fruit Bread Fermentation Method

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Solution Overview

Problem

Commercially available bread in China is often sweet, high in oil and additives, lacks nutritional variety, and has limited flavor options, making it unsuitable as a staple food for Chinese consumers.

Innovation Solution

A bread manufacturing method using vegetable or fruit as the main ingredient combined with flour, egg, and milk, involving grinding, steaming, fermentation, and baking to create a balanced and nutritious dough that can be used to produce various bread products, including pastries and snacks, without the need for additional additives like oil, sugar, or salt.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If traditional bread manufacturing methods are used with additives like oil, sugar, and cream, then flavor and texture are improved, but nutritional value deteriorates and healthfulness worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflavor and textureVSAvoidnutritional value and healthfulness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the fundamental parameters of bread manufacturing by replacing traditional ingredients (flour, water, yeast, oil, sugar) with vegetable/fruit puree as the primary component. This parameter change allows the dough to achieve proper consistency and fermentation properties without adding harmful additives, thus improving nutritional value while maintaining acceptable flavor and texture through the natural properties of vegetables and fruits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite material system by combining vegetable/fruit puree with flour, eggs, and milk to form a new type of dough. This composite approach allows the beneficial nutrients from vegetables and fruits to be integrated with the structural properties of flour and the enriching effects of eggs and milk, achieving both healthfulness and desirable sensory characteristics without traditional additives

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If vegetable or fruit is used as the main ingredient, then nutritional value and healthfulness are improved, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenutritional valueVSAvoidmanufacturing process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the manufacturing process into distinct stages: vegetable/fruit preparation and puree extraction, dough formulation with specific ingredient ratios, fermentation control, and baking. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, managing the complexity of using vegetable/fruit as the main ingredient while ensuring consistent nutritional quality and product performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If additives and improvers are reduced, then healthfulness is improved, but flavor variety deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovehealthfulnessVSAvoidflavor variety
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by using different vegetables and fruits as the main ingredient to create diverse flavor profiles. Each vegetable or fruit brings its unique taste, aroma, and nutritional characteristics, allowing for flavor variety without requiring traditional additives. The base dough can be customized with specific vegetable/fruit selections to achieve desired flavor variations while maintaining healthfulness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The method results in bread products with enhanced nutrition and flavor, meeting modern food safety and health standards, offering a fresh, fragrant, and easy-to-digest option with a longer shelf life, suitable for immediate consumption or storage, and can be produced efficiently in a central factory for distribution.

Implementation Method 1

taking the steamed slurry out and mixing uniformly with an appropriate amount of flour to carry out a first mixed fermentation to produce a first mixed fermented dough

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFermentation: Fermentation

Implementation Method 2

mixing the first mixed fermentation dough is mixed uniformly with eggs, milk, and a preferred active dry yeast to carry out a second mixed fermentation to produce a second mixed fermented dough

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFermentation: Fermentation

Data Source

PatentUS11871755B2Food made of vegetable or fruit with flour, egg and milk and method of making same
Publication Date: 2024.01.16 YANG FUSHUN

AI summary

The invention discloses a food, ingredients of the food are made of vegetable or fruit, flour, egg and milk, the vegetable or fruit is fermenting and fermented paste of vegetable or fruit which is in fermentation under a condition without adding any water, sugar, and microbiological bacteria; the food is prepared by mixing, fermentating and baking a mixed and various chinese and western food products by carrying out at least one fermentation on a mixture of vegetable or fruit, flour, egg and milk.