Patent ID: 7319118

Claim:
A food-coating composition comprising an aqueous copolymer poly(vinyl ester) dispersion consisting essentially of: A) 100 parts by weight of a copolymer of from 40 to 95% by weight of vinyl esters of aliphatic saturated carboxylic acids, from 5 to 60% by weight of maleic esters and/or fumaric esters of monohydric aliphatic alcohols having a chain length of C 1 -C 18 and optionally other comonomers; and B) a stabilizer system consisting of: 1) from 0.1 to 1.0 parts by weight of an emulsifier; 2) from 0 to 0.45 parts by weight of a cellulose ether; and 3) from 1 to 10% by weight of at least one polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of hydrolysis in the range from 85 to 90 mol % and a viscosity of from 2 to 70 mPa·s for the 4% by weight aqueous solution at 20° C.