Patent ID: 9585414
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A23L,A23P,A23V

Claim:
1. A crumb manufactured by a process of manufacture comprising the steps of: forming an aqueous mixture comprising: a flour mixture comprising one or more flours, sodium bicarbonate, and water; adding the aqueous mixture into an extruder; partially extruding the aqueous mixture through the extruder forming a homogenized aqueous mixture prior to addition of an aqueous gelling agent; adding the aqueous gelling agent to the extruder at a point downstream of the start of the extrusion of the aqueous mixture through the extruder to form a resultant mixture of the aqueous mixture and the aqueous gelling agent in the extruder; extruding the resultant mixture through and from the extruder at a temperature greater than 100° C. to form an extrudate; allowing the extrudate to expand to form a porous product; drying the porous product to form a dried product; and forming a crumb from the dried product.