Food/drink containing sucrose-containing plants

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12285032-B2
Application number	US-202117209401-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2021
Priority date	Jun 20, 2019
Publication date	Apr 29, 2025
Grant date	Apr 29, 2025

Abstract

A powdery food containing a sucrose-containing plant with a sucrose content of 2.5 mass % or more in terms of dry mass, a dietary fiber content of 1 mass % or more in terms of dry mass, has a particle sizes d50 after ultrasonication of 1,000 μm or less and has an acetoin content of 1 ppb or more and 40,000 ppb or less, is provided. The powdery food easily controls the burnt odor derived from sucrose and extract the sweet flavor peculiar to sucrose in a food and drink containing a powder derived from a sucrose-containing plant.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a powdery food, the method comprising:
forming the powdery food by:
a first step of drying a sucrose-containing plant having a sucrose content of 2.5 mass % or more in terms of dry mass and a dietary fiber content of 1 mass % or more in terms of dry mass to a state in which a content of water is 20 mass % or less, and
a second step of crushing the sucrose-containing plant,
wherein acetoin and dimethyl sulfoxide are added in a pure form or a composition containing acetoin and dimethyl sulfoxide before or after the first step or the second step,
wherein the powdery food has a particle size d50 1,000 μm or less and contains 1 ppb or more and 40,000 ppb or less of acetoin and 1 ppb or more and 40,000 ppb or less of dimethyl sulfoxide, and
wherein the powdery food comprises the sucrose-containing plant consisting of one plant selected from the group consisting of pumpkins, beets, carrots, soybeans, sweet potatoes, pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and almonds.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powdery food has a sucrose-containing plant content of 90 mass % or more.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powdery food has a content of sucrose derived from the sucrose-containing plant of 50 mass % or more with respect to a total sucrose content of the powdery food.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sucrose-containing plant consists of one plant selected from the group consisting of pumpkins, beets, carrots, pineapples, and mangoes.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the powdery food has a dimethyl sulfoxide content of 300 ppb or more and 40,000 ppb or less.

Assignees

• Mizkan Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Konishi Manabu
• Ihara Junichiro

Classifications

• A23L19/15

  Unshaped dry products, e.g. powders, flakes, granules or agglomerates · CPC title

• A23L2/52

  Adding ingredients (adding preservatives A23B70/10) · CPC title

• A23L2/39

  Dry compositions · CPC title

• A23L19/00

  Products from fruits or vegetables; Preparation or treatment thereof (marmalades, jams, jellies or the like A23L21/10; treating harvested fruit or vegetables in bulk A23N) · CPC title

• A23L19/105

  Sweet potatoes · CPC title