Patent ID: 8778438

Claim:
A shelf-stable foamed food product comprising 0.1 to 50 percent by weight of an aqueous foam, the aqueous foam comprising gas bubbles that are stabilized by supra-molecular aggregates or particles which show interfacial activity, including at least one polysaccharide or hydrocolloid in an amount of 1 to 60 percent by weight of the aqueous foam and by food-grade, interfacially active particles in an amount of 0.5 to 10 percent by weight of the aqueous foam, wherein the interfacially active particles are seeds, spores, cloves, pepper, fennel, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, poppy grains, paprika, cinnamon, pollen of flowers, wheat germs, wheat bran, saffron, coconut, cacao, melanoidins, ginger, curry, crystals of phytosterols, cholesterol, hesperidin, lycopene, carotenoids, flavonoids, or lamellar surfactants, or mixtures thereof.