United States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 4,567,055 Moore [45] Date of Patent: Jan
United States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 4,567,055 Moore [45] Date of Patent: Jan. 28, 1986 [54] EXTRUDED CONFECI‘IONS 3,717,475 2/1973 Germino et al. .................. .. 426/578 [75] Inventor: Carl 0. Moore, Rochester, I11. Primary Examiner—Jeanette M. Hunter [73] Assignee: A. E. Staley Manufacturing An‘caglrggn ,A gen t, or F’[rm —J ames B.G uffey ; Mlchael' F. Company, Decatur, Ill. [21] Appl. No.: 587,339 [57] ABSTRACT _ An improved method is provided for extruding a starch [22] Flled: Mar‘ 6’ 1984 containing gel confection such as jelly bean centers, [51] Int. 01.4 ....................... .. A23G 3/00; A23L 1/04; imitation fruit slices, and the like, The confection is A23L 1/195 prepared from a mixture of (a) a starch having a cold [52] US. Cl. ................................... .. 426/578; 426/660 water-solubility of greater than 25 percent, hydratable [58] Field of Search ...................... .. 426/578, 660, 661 and functioning as a gelling colloid and (b) saccharides. The starch is heated at a temperature below the boiling [56] References Cited point of the mixture to fully gelatinize the starch, and U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS the mixture is extruded to provide the gel confection. 3,265,510 8/1966 Wurzburg et al. ................ .. 426/660 3,446,628 5/1969 Schoch et al. .. 426/578 11 Claims, No Drawings 4,567,055 1 2 the like. These confections as indicated are, therefore, EXTRUDED CONFECI‘ IONS presently commercially manufactured by the starch mold casting process.‘ The present invention relates generally to the manu US Pat. No. 3,265,508 to Wurzburg et al issued Aug.
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