POURABLE SALAD DRESSING

摘要

A pourable acidic dressing comprising 0-50 wt.% of fat, 46-99 wt.% of water, pieces of vegetables, herbs and/or spices of a visible size, an acidulant enough for a titratable acidity of 0.5-2.5 %, 0.1-4 wt.% of one or more non-starch polysaccharides present in a sheared gel form, which polysaccharides used either singly or in combination, if applied under quiescent gelling conditions, at the concentration used in the dressing composition, and at the appropriate pH, titratable acidity and salt content, are capable to form in water either a rigid thermoreversible gel or a rigid chemically set gel or a rigid synergistic gel, where the dressing has a Brookfield viscosity of 100-4,500 cps. (centipoise) and a yield stress (tan delta = 1) of 0.1-10 Pa.