Patent ID: 8376609

Claim:
A disposable agitator for mixed food products, the agitator comprising an elongated stem, which has, at a longitudinal end, an agitator blade having a spoon shape, the agitator being removably fixable to a rotary shaft of a mixer, so that a consumer can subsequently use the agitator as a utensil for eating the product previously mixed; the agitator comprising two longitudinally extending ribs, projecting transversally from and running along a majority of length of the stem and a majority of length of the spoon shaped agitator blade, the two longitudinally extending ribs extending toward a rear of the agitator with an open space therebetween such that both the stem and the spoon shaped agitator blade each has an open to the rear c-shaped cross-section along a majority of its length; the ribs acting both as agitator stiffening elements and active mixing elements, the rear of the agitator being a side of the agitator where the spoon shaped agitator blade has a convex shape.