The invention relates to a powder composition for preparing a food product, to a method for preparing said powder composition, to a method for preparing a food product from said powder composition, to a food product obtainable by said method, and to a method for keeping gas bubbles in bulk liquid.

The present invention relates to a cooking composition comprising a leavening agent, wherein the leavening agent is a chemical leavening agent substitute and consists essentially of edible porous particles which encapsulate and retain a gas.

The process for producing low-gluten or gluten-free cooking dough for food purposes includes making a dough composition including, by weight relative to the total percentage by weight thereof: between 88.5 and 95% of dittany starch, between 0.1 and 0.5% of salt, between 40 and 65% of water, yeasts, between 3 and 5% of sugar, between 1.5 and 4% of pea protein, and between 0.2 and 3.6% of at least one thickener. The dough composition is kneaded in a closed chamber depressurized beforehand. Carbon dioxide CO2 is injected into the chamber at a pressure of between 25 and 550 mbar for 10 to 50 minutes simultaneously to the kneading step, so as to obtain a low-gluten or gluten-free cooking dough.

The invention relates to a process and to a device for producing a pore-containing foodstuff, the matrix of which enclosing the pores contains starch. The process is characterized in that the dough is flowable, is admixed with pressure gas and is expanded through a nozzle into an adjacent flow-through channel so that the raw dough containing pressure gas foams in the flow-through channel. For warming of the foamed dough the flow-through channel has a section which is directly adjacent and has at least two electrodes arranged on its circumference for applying current to the foamed dough.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and a device for processing flour. The method comprises: adding water to the flour to increase the moisture rate of the flour; generating superheated steam; and subjecting the moistened flour to the superheated steam for a predetermined period of time. With the inventive method, superheated steam is used for processing the flour, and the flour can be treated in an easy way and in much less time.

The present invention pertains to a foamer ingredient in the form of a powder comprising one or more carbohydrates; at least 0.5% by weight and less than 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the foamer ingredient in the form of a powder, of one or more proteins having a protein-bound phosphorus to nitrogen ratio of less than 0.03 g/g and having a proline content of less than 7 g per 100 g of protein; and entrapped gas, said foamer ingredient in the form of a powder releases gas when dissolved in a liquid. It furthermore pertains to a method of manufacturing the same, and, finally, to the use of the foamer ingredient in the form of a powder in food products and the products thus obtained.

When a food processing vessel under vacuum is repressurized, the tendency of product in the vessel to be forced into feed lines is relieved or overcome by establishing an effectively high pressure in the feed lines.

A proofed frozen dough includes a dough mixture of flour, water, and optionally additives; gas bubbles dispersed throughout the dough matrix; a spent yeast component; and a preserved yeast component. According to some aspects, the preserved yeast component includes encapsulated yeast, fat-coated yeast, non-hydrated active dry yeast, non-hydrated instant yeast, non-hydrated semi-dry yeast, non-hydrated frozen yeast, or a combination thereof. A frozen dough product can be prepared by mixing dough ingredients to produce a dough composition, where the dough ingredients include water, flour, a first yeast, and a second yeast; proofing the dough, where during proofing the first yeast is spent and the second yeast is preserved; and freezing the dough after proofing.

The invention relates to a method, a control and/or regulating device, a device and products as well as the use of such products. It is shown how gas-foamed products are manufactured from doughs or from pastes in an elongated process space and how the static pressure required for the gas dissolution is maintained in the process space up to the outlet opening and the foaming in the dough or in the paste is not initiated in a targeted manner under predetermined process conditions until the product exits from a metering valve device connected downstream of the process space and the pressure is reduced.

A dough-based food product, an apparatus and method for production of the dough-based food product. A food product matrix to be foamed includes a proportion by weight of a starch-containing raw material and a proportion by weight of water. Gas that has been dissolved or is to be dissolved is introduced into the food product matrix to be foamed. The gas is dissolved under pressure in the food product matrix to be foamed. Gas bubbles are formed by expansion and increasing the volume with a resulting reduction in density of the dough as a result of bubble growth for formation of a foamed food product matrix of the food product to be produced. The foam is then stabilized. Gas is introduced into and dissolved in the aqueous component of the food product matrix to be foamed in a subcritical state below the critical point and at a pressure of 10 barp<critical pressure of the gas.