US 11,992,019 B2
Method and system for regulating leavening reactions
Abdel Abdelrahman, Fairfield, CT (US); Bruce W Robb, St. Louis Park, MN (US); and David J Domingues, Plymouth, MN (US)
Assigned to General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on May 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/868,007.
Application 16/868,007 is a continuation of application No. 14/398,802, granted, now 10,694,756, previously published as PCT/US2013/039629, filed on May 6, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/643,952, filed on May 8, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2020/0260740 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. A21D 2/02 (2006.01); A21D 6/00 (2006.01); A21D 10/02 (2006.01)
CPC A21D 2/02 (2013.01) [A21D 6/001 (2013.01); A21D 10/025 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01); A23V 2200/234 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for regulating the reaction rate of a leavening system in a dough having at least one leavening agent capable of forming leavening agent counter ions in the dough,
wherein the at least one leavening agent includes
a leavening acid capable of dissociating into leavening acid ions in the dough and
a leavening base capable of dissociating into leavening base ions in the dough,
the method comprising
adding to the dough a source of an alternate counter ion of at least one leavening agent ion, the alternate counter ion having an equal or greater electronegativity than the leavening agent counter ion of the at least one leavening agent ion,
wherein said leavening acid consists of a slow-acting leavening acid,
wherein said source of an alternate counter ion comprises carnallite,
wherein the carnallite is added to the dough in an amount of about 0.2% to about 0.5% by weight of the dough, and
wherein a reaction of at least one leavening acid ion or at least one leavening base ion with the alternate counter ion results in an accelerated production of carbon dioxide.