Patent ID: 7494683
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: A21D

Abstract:
1. A method of forming cereal pieces from a combined oat bran fraction and an oat flour fraction comprising: milling oat groats to establish a coarse oat flour having a native β-glucan content; milling a first portion of the coarse oat flour to establish an oat flour fraction; bolting a second portion of the coarse oat flour to establish a first oat bran fraction and a first pass low bran oat flour; milling the first oat bran fraction to establish first milled oat bran; bolting the milled oat bran to establish a second oat bran fraction and a second pass low bran oat flour; milling the second oat bran fraction to establish second milled oat bran; bolting the second milled oat bran to establish a high β-glucan oat bran fraction and a third pass low bran oat flour; blending the oat flour fraction and the high β-glucan oat bran fraction to form a high β-glucan oat flour; cooking the high β-glucan oat flour to form a cooked dough; and forming the cooked dough into cereal pieces.