Microwave foam product

摘要

Shelf stable microwave dessert packaged food products for individual servings comprise a cup; a shelf-stable ready-to-heat uncooked microwave bakeable foam product disposed within the cup, and a peelably removable, low gas permeability sealing membrane. The articles provide high quality finished expanded baked dessert goods by microwave cooking and expansion of the foam.

主权项

1. 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:
5%-15% (dry weight basis) ungellatinized farinaceous ingredient;20-50% (dry weight basis) of a nutritive carbohydrate sweetening ingredient;1-7% of a non-sugar humectant;2%-6% (dry weight basis) of an undenatured structuring protein ingredient;2%-6% of a water binding fiber ingredient;15%-20% (dry weight basis) of a fat ingredient including from 1.5 to 25% hydrogenated triglycerides;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 4.5 to 7;sufficient amounts of moisture to provide the foam with a total moisture content ranging from 10% to 20%;wherein the foam has a water activity ranges from 0.60 to 0.85;wherein the foam has a viscosity ranges from 400,000 to 550,000 cP. at a temperature of 20-40° C.;wherein the foam has an average cell size diameter of 25 μm or less;wherein the foam is free of a chemical leavening system; andwherein the foam is free of N2O.