Patent ID: 7776938

Claim:
A food coating composition consisting of a) a plastics dispersion or a mixture of plastics dispersions consisting of at least one homo- or copolymer poly(meth)acrylate having at least 55% by weight (meth)acrylate monomer units, water, and at least one protective colloid, wherein said at least one homo- or copolymer poly(meth)acrylate was prepared in the presence of from 0.1 to 30% by weight of said at least one protective colloid, and wherein said at least one protective colloid is selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, gelatin, casein, starch, gum Arabic, polyvinylpyrrolidone, hydroxyethyl starch, and sodium alginate; and b) an aid and/or additive used in food-coating compositions.