US 12,239,156 B2
Systems and methods for improving the performance of cereal using a silk fibroin solution and powders containing silk fibroin
Adam Behrens, Boston, MA (US); Sezin Yigit, Arlington, MA (US); Laith Abu-Taleb, Gaithersburg, MD (US); Ryan Ellis, Washington, DC (US); and Jesse Groner, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Cambridge Crops, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by Cambridge Crops, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/506,797.
Application 18/506,797 is a continuation of application No. 17/820,103, filed on Aug. 16, 2022, granted, now 11,864,569.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/233,513, filed on Aug. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0074471 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A23L 7/122 (2016.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01); A23L 7/174 (2016.01); A23P 30/20 (2016.01)
CPC A23L 7/122 (2016.08) [A23L 5/10 (2016.08); A23L 7/174 (2016.08); A23P 30/20 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of enhancing the performance of a flaked cereal by utilizing silk fibroin comprising:
(A) obtaining the flaked cereal;
(B) producing a coating liquid by modifying a recipe for a coating liquid that includes a sweetener, wherein the modification comprises substituting a silk fibroin-based input for a portion of the sweetener, where the silk fibroin-based input was derived from a cocoon created by a Bombyx mori silkworm, wherein a flaked cereal coated with the coating has a firmness measurement;
(C) coating the flaked cereal with the coating liquid to create a coated flaked cereal, wherein the coated flaked cereal coated with the coating liquid has a firmness measurement that is at least the same as or greater than the firmness measurement of the flaked cereal coated with the coating liquid, wherein the firmness measurements are taken after their respective flaked cereals have been submerged in a cool liquid for sixty seconds; and
(D) drying the coated flaked cereal to cure the coating liquid.