US 11,832,632 B2
Chocolate replicas produced from individual components
Kelsey Tenney, San Francisco, CA (US); Adam Maxwell, San Francisco, CA (US); Ethan Charles Beswick, San Francisco, CA (US); Samuel Ryo, Singapore (SG); Daniel Assad Saad, Dallas, TX (US); Alec Kremonic Lee, San Francisco, CA (US); Mardonn Carl Chua, San Francisco, CA (US); and Brandon Head, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to Voyage Foods, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by Voyage Foods, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,729.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/222,917, filed on Jul. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0033131 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A23G 1/34 (2006.01); A23G 1/48 (2006.01)
CPC A23G 1/34 (2013.01) [A23G 1/48 (2013.01); A23G 2200/06 (2013.01); A23G 2200/14 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
 
1. A chocolate replica comprising:
a plant-based solid substrate, wherein the plant-based solid substrate is present in the chocolate replica at about 0.5 wt % to about 99.9 wt %,
two or more isolated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), wherein the two or more isolated VOCs comprise acetoin and at least one of 2,3-diethylpyrazine, 2,3-pentadione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine, 2-methoxypyrazine, 3-methylbutyraldehyde, 5-methyl-2-hepten-4-one, coffee furanone, furfuryl mercaptan, indole, vanillin propylene glycol acetal, vanillyl ethyl ether, (E)-anethole, 1-heptanol, 2,3,5-trimethyl-6-ethylpyrazine, 2,3-butanedione, 2,4,5-trimethylthiazole, 2-acetylpyridine, 2-ethoxy-3-methyl pyrazine, 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2-ethylene-6-methylpyrazine, 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, 2-isopropyl-5-methyl-2-hexenal, 2-methylbutyraldehyde, 2-methyl furan, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 2-octanol, 2-octanone, 2-phenylpropionaldehyde, 3,4-hexanedione, 3,5-diethyl-2-methylpyrazine, 3-octanone, 4,5-dimethyl-2-ethyl-3-thiazoline, 4-ethylguaiacol, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethy-3(2H)-furanone, 4-methyl-2-phenyl-2-pentenal, 4-methyl-5-thiazoleethanol, 4-methylguaiacol, 6-propyl-5,6-dihydropyran-2-one, anethole, beta-damascenone, damascenone, ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, ethyl 3-phenylpropionate, ethyl butanoate, ethyl isobutyrate, ethyl isovalerate, furfuryl acetate, furfuryl propionate, hexyl isobutyrate, isoamyl benzoate, isoamyl butyrate, isoamyl phenylacetate, isopropenyl pyrazine, linalool oxide, methional, methyl 2-thiofuroate, methyl butyrate, methyl p-anisate, methyl phenylacetate, ocimene, p-cresol, prenyl benzoate, propanol, propenal, propyl 2-furoate, pyridine, syringol, tetrahydrofurfuryl phenylacetate, trans-2-nonenal, and tricyclodecenyl isobutyrate; and
one or more isolated non-volatile compounds.