Ready-to-eat cereal with reduced sugar coating

摘要

Disclosed is a reduced sugar coating for coating a variety of food products including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, trail mix, energy bars, granola bars, cookies, cakes, pies, crackers, and muffins. The reduced sugar coating provides a frosted appearance to the food products and permits up to 50% reduction of the sugar in a coating composition while maintaining the taste, texture and function of a full sugar coating composition. The removed sugar is replaced by a type 4 resistant starch in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.0 parts of type 4 resistant starch per every 3 parts of removed sugar. Preferably the source of the type 4 resistant starch is potato, however the source can also comprise wheat, corn, rice, tapioca, quinoa, a legume, barley, banana, sorghum, oat, millet, sweet potato, or mixtures thereof.

主权项

1. A method of forming a reduced sugar coating composition for a food product comprising the steps of:
a) removing a positive amount of sugar up to 50% of the total sugar from a sugar containing coating composition; and b) replacing the removed sugar with a composition consisting of a type 4 resistant starch, wherein said type 4 resistant starch is present at a ratio of from 0.1 to 1 parts of said type 4 resistant starch per 3 parts of said removed sugar thereby forming a reduced sugar coating composition, and wherein the level of said type 4 resistant starch comprises 10% or less by weight of the total weight of the food product to which the reduced sugar coating composition is applied.