An apparatus for enzymatic inactivation of puree, or juice, from vegetable or animal food, having a treatment section of food of vegetable origin obtaining a treated product. The treated product exiting from the treatment section is directed towards an extraction section. The treated product enters the extraction section at a temperature T.sub.0. The apparatus also has a storage and recirculation section having an enzymatic inactivation circuit crossed by a hot product at a temperature T.sub.2 normally about 85° C.-90° C. The main product present in the extraction section is struck, near the sieve, or directly on its surface, by a flow of hot product coming from the enzymatic inactivation section. The mixture so obtained in the extraction section has at least one part of inactivated product and is then discharged through an outlet.

A material mixing inhibitor composition, a method of minimizing material mixing of a first fluid material and a second fluid material in a material processing system that includes a pipeline, and a cartridge for delivery of a material mixing inhibitor composition to the material processing system are described.

A preparing method of nutrition-balanced dumplings based on over thirty kinds of food ingredients includes steps of: S1, providing raw materials for a dumpling dough, a dumpling filling and a seasoning, preparing the dumpling dough, and proofing the prepared dumpling dough for 40-50 minutes; S2, preparing the dumpling filling during proofing the prepared dumpling dough by cutting a main food material, an auxiliary food material and an additive food material to 0.5 mm in lengths, adding the seasoning and stirring; S3, rolling the proofed dumpling dough for wrapping the dumpling filling to obtain dumplings, putting the dumplings into a pot with cold water and heating for cooking the dumplings with a period of 7-8 minutes; and S4, taking the dumplings out of the pot after the cooking for being eaten with a dipping sauce. The problem of lack of balanced nutritious food supply in the existing market is solved consequently.

The present invention relates to a method for making and the composition of a non-dairy yogurt made from green banana flour, without the use of milk or soy products. The non-dairy yogurt has improved taste, texture and sensory characteristics compared to commercial non-dairy yogurts currently on the market.

A traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating diabetes and a preparation method thereof, the composition comprises dried tangerine peels and dark tea. The preparation method utilizes Pu'er tea to shuffle placement with the dried tangerine peels to preserve the dried tangerine peels, mixes different kinds of dried tangerine peels of different aging years, adds the mixed dried tangerine peels with pile-fermented black tea, presses the mixed black tea into tea bricks, and secondarily-ferments the tea bricks, then ages the secondary fermented tea bricks for two years.

A method of preparing paprika red pigment with low polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons includes (1) drying, crushing and granulating mature peppers to obtain pepper particles; (2) extracting the pepper particles with a vegetable oil in a rotocel extractor to obtain a paprika red pigment solution; (3) extracting the paprika red pigment solution with an ethanol solution in a liquid-liquid extractor to remove spicy substances; (4) running the paprika red pigment solution through a low-pressure chromatography column to remove polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; and (5) concentrating the paprika red pigment solution to obtain the paprika red pigment with low polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

A food supplement for helping alleviate the side effects of cancer and cancer treatments is disclosed which is formed from a mixture including at least one edible oil, at least one chopped fruit or fruit paste; at least one ground nut or seed meal or ground nut or seed butter; and honey. The food supplement has a volume of less than three cubic inches and provides at least 100 kilocalories of energy, making it small in volume but with a high energy density. The food supplement can have a high fat content which can make the food supplement moist and easy to eat while providing the necessary calories need for patients combatting cancer and undergoing cancer treatments who often have a severely reduced appetite.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing an edible foodstuff from food industry waste stream byproducts. This process involves the steps of: (i) combining, in an extruder, an extrusion formulation comprising a first food byproduct and at least one additional ingredient; (ii) introducing supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO.sub.2) into the extruder to mix with the first food byproduct and the at least one additional ingredient; and (iii) producing an edible foodstuff containing the first food byproduct and the at least one additional ingredient, where the edible foodstuff comprises an extrudate prepared under supercritical fluid extrusion (SCFX) conditions. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing an edible foodstuff from a protein concentrate. The present invention further relates to edible foodstuffs produced by the various processes disclosed herein.

A liquid seasoning contains ingredients that reduce changes in color and smell during preservation. The liquid seasoning has (A) a solid ingredient, (B) a water-insoluble powder, (C) a component selected from the group consisting of a fruit juice, a vegetable juice, a colorant, and combinations thereof, and (D) a viscosity adjuster.

A vegetable- and/or fruit-containing snack food, the snack food comprising a sheet having a thickness of from 1 to 8 mm, the sheet comprising a rigid starch matrix comprising potato starch and a plurality of individual pieces of vegetable and/or fruit randomly distributed throughout the matrix, wherein at least 50% by number of the pieces have a minimum dimension of at least 0.75 mm and a maximum dimension of up to 7 mm, wherein the matrix defines therein a first cellular structure of first cellular pores having a first pore size distribution and the pieces define therein a second cellular structure of second cellular pores having a second pore size distribution, at least some of the second cellular pores are defined by polysaccharide cell walls of the respective vegetable and/or fruit, and the first pore size distribution has a larger number-average pore size and a wider distribution than the second pore size distribution. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.