The invention is directed broadly to a method of preparing a texture modified starch-based food product, comprising the steps: (a) dehydrating a starch-based food to remove excess water; (b) grinding the dehydrated starch-based food to form a fine powder; (c) adding a carrier to coat the fine powder; (d) rehydrating the coated powder to form a paste; and (e) forming the paste into the texture modified starch-based food product shaped and textured to a generic serve of the starch-based food selected to form the paste.

A method for producing black ginseng concentrate is characterized by including steps of adding red ginseng to a continuous steaming-dryer followed by steaming, cooling, and drying to prepare black ginseng, carrying out extraction by adding alcohol to crushed black ginseng obtained by crushing the black ginseng prepared above followed by filtration to prepare black ginseng extract, and concentrating the black ginseng extract prepared above by using a plate type evaporative concentrator followed by heat treatment, and the present invention also relates to black ginseng concentrate prepared by the aforementioned method.

A milk food product is provided that when mixed with baby food and given regularly to a baby will reduce the likelihood of the baby developing a food allergy. The milk food product is produced by taking milk and mixing or whipping the milk with other ingredients such as rice, tapioca, wheat, corn, nut flours, soy flour, or bean flour. The resulting batter is then baked in order to produce a cake-like product. The resulting cake is then dried in order to remove substantially all moisture. The dried cake is then ground or milled into a powder.

An object of the present invention is to provide a hard capsule improved in deposition of a gelling aid on a hard capsule film. The gelling aid deposition is inhibited by adding a non-reducing disaccharide or a non-reducing disaccharide alcohol to the hard capsule film.

An object of the present invention is to provide a hard capsule improved in deposition of a gelling aid on a hard capsule film. The gelling aid deposition is inhibited by adding a non-reducing disaccharide or a non-reducing disaccharide alcohol to the hard capsule film.

The present invention relates to the field of prebiotics. Provided are uses for compositions comprising synergistically effective amounts of polyfructose and galactooligosaccharides (GOS).

The present invention relates to the field of prebiotics. Provided are uses for compositions comprising synergistically effective amounts of polyfructose and galactooligosaccharides (GOS).

Disclosed are single-serving coffee containers in which nanoparticulate CBD, embedded or encapsulated in a hydrophilic thin film, is deposited in a lower portion of the single-serving coffee container below a packed bed of ground coffee beans. The container may, but need not, include a separator that separates the container into an upper portion containing the ground coffee beans and the lower portion containing the CBD nanoparticles. Disclosed methods of using such single-serving coffee containers include exposing the hydrophilic CBD thin film to hot water used in brewing a coffee beverage, thereby causing a carrier material of the hydrophilic thin film to dissolve or disintegrate, thereby releasing the CBD nanoparticles to form a CBD coffee beverage.

Glycine is an organic compound that can be used in the making of a synthetic base that obviates all the drawbacks of strong bases such as sodium hydroxide. The new compound is made by dissolving glycine in water and adding calcium hydroxide at a molar ration of about 1:1. Next, sodium percarbonate is dissolved in the solution to produce the new compound, which can be referred to as glycine hydroxide.

Image analysis for comparison utilizes a combined image distance determined between the one or more captured images and the one or more reference images from a dual path analysis. The dual path analysis can comprise a first image analysis based on histograms of image colors and a second image analysis based a one-dimensional power spectral density of a black and white instance of the one or more captured images and the one or more reference images. In one case, the one-dimensional power spectral density derived by integrating a Discrete Fourier Transform of a two-dimensional image over annular rings of substantially equal area starting from the center of the two-dimensional image.