Patent ID: 9420804
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: A23C,A23L

Claim Text:
1. A shelf-stable acidified starch and cheese sauce meal comprising: an acidified starch component having a pH of about 4.6 or below; a separate cheese-based sauce component to be combined with the acidified starch component when the meal is ready to be consumed, the separate cheese-based sauce component having a pH between about 5.7 and about 6.2; a buffering composition blended into the separate cheese-based sauce component and including a dibasic phosphate salt, a monobasic phosphate salt, and an edible acid; a total dry weight of phosphate salt between about 3 and about 5 percent in the cheese-based sauce component; an amount of the dibasic phosphate salt in the buffering composition sufficient to increase the pH of the acidified starch component when the separate cheese-based sauce component is combined therewith when the meal is ready to be consumed; an amount of the monobasic phosphate salt and the edible acid in the buffering composition so that the pH of the separate cheese-based sauce component is between about 5.7 and about 6.2 when separate from the acidified starch component; and wherein the cheese-based sauce component includes about 3 to about 4.7 percent of the dibasic phosphate salt on a dry basis.