Patent ID: 6808727
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: A23L,A23P

Abstract:
A meal equivalent food bar provides an improved meal replacement food bar as a bar meal, comprising:(a) a baked, cereal dough based, segmented food bar with transverse dividers which divide the food bar into segments corresponding to the plural courses of a conventional meal including appetizer, maincourse, and dessert, (b) each segment differs from its adjacent segments for contrast in size and at least one ingredient food type, such that: (1) the segments approximate the contrast in sequential courses of a conventional meal, (c) each segment comprises: (1) the baked, cereal based bar-common dough which is common to all segments of the bar meal, and (2) at least one segment-specific ingredient which is specific to each segment, respectively, to approximate the nutrition and contrast properties of its corresponding course, respectively, in a conventional meal, (d) the appetizer segment characterized by: (1) ingredients of quantity and food type to stimulate but not satiate appetite, (2) positioned at one end of the bar as a first course, (3) segment marking to identify as appetizer, (e) the main course segment characterized by: (1) ingredients of quantity and food type to provide the major nutrients of the meal, (2) positioned central between the bar ends, (f) the dessert segment characterized by: (1) ingredients of quantity and food type to end the meal approximating a conventional meal dessert course, (2) positioned at the end of the bar opposite the appetizer segment as a last course, (3) segment marking as a dessert, (g) said segments to provide a bar meal approximating the courses of a conventional meal in: (1) value of balanced nutrition, (2) effect of appetite control, (3) effect of contrasting sequential courses, (h) said segmented food bar packaged as a package bar: (1) dimensioned for convenient portage in an ordinary pocket of clothing, (2) dimensioned for convenient handling and eating by one individual consumer, (3) marked for appetizer starting end, whereby the consumer eats through the bar meal from appetizer to dessert to encounter segments in sequence which approximate a conventional meal in balanced nutrition for improved physiologic support, and which approximate the appetite control and contrast in sequential courses of a conventional meal for pleasurable psychological support for the individual consumer.