US 12,213,496 B2
Non-animal-based whole-cut food products
Maxime Boulet-Audet, El Cerrito, CA (US); Elysia Cohn, San Mateo, CA (US); Carolyn Gresswell, Redwood City, CA (US); Dmitriy Khatayevich, Redwood City, CA (US); Xin Li, Fremont, CA (US); Behzad Nazari-Nasrabad, San Carlos, CA (US); Sowmya Purushothaman, Oakland, CA (US); Ines Resano Goizueta, Redwood City, CA (US); Sergey Solomatin, Los Altos, CA (US); Hui Wang, Redwood City, CA (US); and Kelsie Wysong, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to Impossible Foods Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed by Impossible Foods Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,336.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/177,153, filed on Apr. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330575 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A23J 3/22 (2006.01); A23J 3/16 (2006.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01)
CPC A23J 3/227 (2013.01) [A23J 3/16 (2013.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-animal-based food product, the food product comprising:
a group of aligned fibers, wherein the fibers have an average fiber diameter between about 50 μm and about 500 μm, wherein the fibers comprise a non-animal-based protein, and wherein the fibers are characterized by a Kramer shear resistance of 0.25 N/mm to 26 N/mm as measured against the grain;
at least one binding agent in an interstitial space between at least a portion of the group of aligned fibers, wherein the at least one binding agent is present in an amount of 20 wt. % or less of the food product.