Patent ID: 7871657

Claim:
A process for the preparation of expanded millet or sorghum, the process comprising; a. equilibrating hydrothermally treated and decorticated millet or sorghum grains to a moisture content of 15-35% by adding additional water and tempering or resting in order to impart pseudo-elastic texture to decorticated millet or sorghum endosperm, b. loosening intracellular intactness of the endosperm by mechanical means without developing fissures to obtain bumped millet or sorghum, c. drying the bumped millet or sorghum to a moisture level of 10-20%, d. grading the millet or sorghum obtained in step (c) to obtain millet or sorghum grains with a thickness of 0.8-1.0 mm and diameter 1.5-1.6 mm by screening through appropriate sieves or screens, e. subjecting the grains to high temperature short time treatment at 200-250° C. for 15-45 seconds in salt, sand or air or such other heat transfer media to prepare expanded millet or sorghum.