Patent ID: 6977093
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: A23L

Abstract:
1. A health food processing process for making a health food containing natural eatable fibers, GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate), and probiotic, the health food processing process comprising the steps of: (a) providing unpolished rice and sprouting said unpolished rice to into unpolished germinated rice, and then inflating said unpolished germinated rice into inflated germinated rice; (b) cooling down said inflated germinated rice from step (a); (c) grinding said cooled inflated germinated rice from step (b) into rice powder in a clean room; (d) preparing a high-concentration probiotic culture; (e) mixing said high-concentration probiotic culture and said rice powder into a mixture, said rice powder being a carrier for said probiotic; (f) fermenting said mixture in a fermentor to form a fermented mixture; and (g) drying said fermented mixture in a refrigerated air dryer and forming a dried fermented health food containing said probiotic.