Patent ID: 7153528

Claim:
A process for the preparation of a hypoglycemic food and/or formulation thereof of high textual and sensory quality, useful as a snack or as a wholesome or supplementary food, especially to Type II diabetics, said process comprising the steps of: a. spraying about 2–6% (volume/weight) water onto cereal, b. tempering or resting the sprayed cereal for a time duration ranging between 5–15 min, c. scouring or decorticating the tempered or rested cereal to about 2–4% degree of decortication, d. toasting the decorticated cereal optionally along with legumes, soy dhal, spice and condiments individually by contact heat at about 60–80° C. for a time duration ranging between 10–30 min to obtain a cereal with golden brown color, e. mixing the toasted cereal with one or more ingredients selected from the group consisting of legumes, soy dhal, spices, condiments, and fenugreek seeds to obtain a hypoglycemic blend, f. combining pulverized, dried Garcinia combogia rinds and the hypoglycemic blend into grits of about 350 microns or less particle size to obtain pulverized mixture, g. blending the pulverized mixture with skimined milk powder, vegetable oil, and amla powder to obtain a blended product, h. fortifying the blended product with a vitamin and mineral premix to obtain a fortified product, and i. homogenizing the fortified product with a conventional food material to obtain the hypoglycemic food and/or formulation thereof.