Patent ID: 6113908
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: A23L,A61K,A61Q,C11B

Abstract:
A process for producing oat pearlings, oat flour and oat bran products from oat groats, comprising: surface abrading said oat groats so as to remove up to about 15% by weight of said oat groat as surface material, separating said surface material as said oat pearlings from said abraded oat groats, steeping said separated oat groats in an aqueous medium for up to about 4 hours at a temperature up to about 50.degree. C., separating said steeped groats from said aqueous medium, and wet milling said steeped groats in an aqueous alcoholic medium, containing up to about 80% of an aliphatic alcohol, so as to produce a slurry, separating said aqueous alcoholic slurry into an insoluble oat bran product and a soluble endospermic product, and recovering said oat flour from said soluble endospermic product.