US 11,963,536 B1
Composite flour, method of manufacture, and food products made therefrom
Gary Millet, Salt Lake City, UT (US); and Kylin Liao, Nanjing (CN)
Assigned to Innovative Flours, LLC, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US)
Filed by INNOVATIVE FLOURS, LLC, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/373,043.
Application 18/373,043 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/096,784, filed on Jan. 13, 2023, granted, now 11,871,773.
Application 18/096,784 is a continuation of application No. 17/972,037, filed on Oct. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/412,721, filed on Oct. 3, 2022.
Int. Cl. A21D 6/00 (2006.01); A21D 2/16 (2006.01); A21D 2/18 (2006.01); A21D 2/26 (2006.01); A21D 13/043 (2017.01); A21D 13/045 (2017.01); A21D 13/047 (2017.01); A21D 13/066 (2017.01)
CPC A21D 13/066 (2013.01) [A21D 2/165 (2013.01); A21D 2/18 (2013.01); A21D 2/183 (2013.01); A21D 2/261 (2013.01); A21D 2/262 (2013.01); A21D 2/263 (2013.01); A21D 2/265 (2013.01); A21D 2/266 (2013.01); A21D 6/003 (2013.01); A21D 6/006 (2013.01); A21D 13/043 (2017.01); A21D 13/045 (2017.01); A21D 13/047 (2017.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing a composite flour, comprising:
forming a wall material slurry comprised of:
water,
a first portion of native plant flour,
at least one of added protein or polysaccharide fiber, and
at least one of an emulsifier or co-emulsifier;
combining MCT and/or other nutritional oil with the wall material slurry to form a heterogeneous mixture;
subjecting the heterogeneous mixture to shearing to form an emulsion comprised of MCT and/or other nutritional oil droplets or particles at least partially encapsulated by wall material, wherein shearing of the heterogeneous mixture causes the first portion of native plant flour to release polysaccharide and form modified plant flour depleted in polysaccharide;
forming the emulsion into micro-sized and/or nano-sized composite micelles comprising wall material that at least partially encapsulates MCT and/or other nutritional oil droplets or particles;
spray-drying the composite micelles with heated air to remove water by evaporation and form partially dried intermediate composite flour; and
mixing the intermediate composite flour with a second portion of native plant flour to form a final composite flour, wherein at least some of the second portion of native plant flour forms agglomerates with at least some of the intermediate composite flour,
wherein the final composite flour comprises unmodified plant flour, modified plant flour depleted in polysaccharide, and complexed MCT and/or other nutritional oil droplets or particles at least partially encapsulated by a wall structure comprised of the polysaccharide released from the first portion of native plant flour, at least one of the added protein or polysaccharide fiber, and at least one of the emulsifier or co-emulsifier.