Patent ID: 8481096

Claim:
A food product, comprising: a shelf stable, ready-to-cook, dimensionally stable, deformable non-elastic closed cell, expandable, farinaceous ungelatinized microwave bakeable dessert foam including: about 5%-15% (dry weight basis) ungellatinized farinaceous ingredient; about 20-50% (dry weight basis) of a nutritive carbohydrate sweetening ingredient; about 1-7% of a non-sugar humectant; about 2%-6% (dry weight basis) of an undenatured structuring protein ingredient; about 2%-6% of a water binding fiber ingredient; about 15%-20% (dry weight basis) of a fat ingredient; about 0.5% to 4% salt; and, sufficient amounts of an edible organic acid or acid salt to provide a pH of the foam to a pH of about 4.5 to ≦6; sufficient amounts of moisture to provide the foam with a total moisture content ranging from about 10% to 20%; wherein the foam has a water activity ranges from about 0.60 to about 0.85; wherein the foam has a viscosity ranges from about 400,000 to 550,000 cP at a temperature of 20-40° C.; wherein the foam has an average cell size diameter of about 25 μm or less; and, wherein the foam includes less than 0.5% of a chemical leavening system; wherein the foam includes less than 0.5% of N 2 O and wherein the product additionally comprises dried or gelled blue or purple inclusions dispersed within the foam in a weight ratio of foam to inclusions ranging from about 100:1 to about 100:25.