Pulse-based bread crumbs, coatings, and pre-dust products having an improved taste, texture and end use properties. The bread crumb, coating, and pre-dust products are produced by heat and moisture treatment at 100% by dry weight with pulse flours, e.g. pea flour, lentil flour, chickpea flour, faba bean flour, navy bean flour, pinto bean flour, black eye bean flour and black bean flour.

Pulse-based bread crumbs, coatings, and pre-dust products having an improved taste, texture and end use properties. The bread crumb, coating, and pre-dust products are produced by heat and moisture treatment at 100% by dry weight with pulse flours, e.g. pea flour, lentil flour, chickpea flour, faba bean flour, navy bean flour, pinto bean flour, black eye bean flour and black bean flour.

A product conveying and coating system includes at least first and second, sequentially arranged conveyor belts, with at least the second conveyor belt being a solid belt. Interposed in a gap between the first and second belts is a dispenser head of a coating manifold. The dispenser head spans the gap between upper surface portions of the first and second conveyor belts, with an elongated side wall outlet portion of the dispenser head being exposed, in a downstream direction of the overall conveyor unit, to the upper surface of the second conveyor belt. The system provides for dispensing of coating material directly onto the second, solid conveyor belt and enrobing at least bottom and partial side portions of food products upon the solid belt. Provisions are made for scraping from the solid belt, removing from the coated food products and recycling excess coating material.

A container assembly moistens a neck of a bottle and then applies a dry flavoring to the moistened neck. The container assembly includes a base with two side-by-side dispenser trays. One dispenser tray includes a liquid used to moisten the bottle, and another dispenser tray includes the dry flavoring used to coat portions of the moistened bottle.

Described herein are methods of sanitizing and preserving produce and other agricultural products, for example for consumption as Ready-to-Eat. The methods can comprise treating the products with a sanitizing agent and forming a protective coating over the products.

There is described an edible particulate material comprising from 80% to 100% by weight based on total weight of the material of a processable, microbially released, flavour acceptable bran-like material, characterized by the following parameters: (i) mean particle size by volume (Vol. MPS) of from 5 to 100 microns; (ii) volume particle size distribution (Vol. PSD) characterized by the parameters: D.sub.90,3 less than or equal to 350 microns, and D.sub.50,3 less than or equal to 50 microns, and optionally D.sub.10,3 less than or equal to 15 microns, (iii) mean particle sphericity as measured by a S.sub.mean of greater than or equal to 0.75; (iv) where processable means has oil holding capacity (OHC) of from 0.7 to 1.5; (v) where microbially released means material has common microbes below given limits (preferably free of common microbes) (vi) where flavour acceptable denotes a lipase activity (LA) and a peroxidase activity (PA) both less than or equal to 2 U/g optionally a low degree of roasted flavour notes as defined herein. The bran as described may added to foodstuffs for example be used as a bulk ingredient to replace sugar and/or to provide filling and/or coatings having improved hiding ability when used as layers in multilayer foodstuffs.

The present invention relates to a frozen cooked rice including a molded cooked rice and a moisture transfer preventing layer formed on at least a part of the surface of the molded cooked rice, in which after the frozen cooked rice is defrosted under conditions of normal temperature and normal pressure for 1 day, the difference between the moisture content of the surface of the frozen cooked rice and the moisture content of a deep part of the frozen cooked rice is 5 wt% or more based on the total weight of the frozen cooked rice, and a method for preparing a frozen cooked rice, the method including forming a moisture transfer preventing layer on at least a part of the surface of a molded cooked rice, hardening the at least a part of the surface of the molded cooked rice on which the moisture transfer preventing layer is formed, and freezing the hardened molded cooked rice.

The present invention relates to a frozen cooked rice including a molded cooked rice and a moisture transfer preventing layer formed on at least a part of the surface of the molded cooked rice, in which after the frozen cooked rice is defrosted under conditions of normal temperature and normal pressure for 1 day, the difference between the moisture content of the surface of the frozen cooked rice and the moisture content of a deep part of the frozen cooked rice is 5 wt% or more based on the total weight of the frozen cooked rice, and a method for preparing a frozen cooked rice, the method including forming a moisture transfer preventing layer on at least a part of the surface of a molded cooked rice, hardening the at least a part of the surface of the molded cooked rice on which the moisture transfer preventing layer is formed, and freezing the hardened molded cooked rice.

A snack food that is easier for a dysphagia sufferer to consume may be made from a crisp, structural core that is highly soluble, enrobed in a calorie-dense coating such as chocolate, where the coating helps protect the core from moisture. When the snack food is bitten, the eater's saliva causes the core to disintegrate rapidly, leaving the coating without support and susceptible to rapid reduction to an easy-to-swallow paste.

Described herein is an edible coating for food products in which the coatings comprises a polysaccharide cross-linked with a cross-linking agent solution. Also described herein are methods for coating food products and forming clusters of food products. The use of the edible coating for extending the shelf-life of food products is also described.