WHOLE GRAIN FLOUR AND PRODUCTS INCLUDING SAME

• US 20150004301A1
• Filed: 09/18/2014
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ardent Mills LLC (CHS Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ardent Mills LLC (CHS Incorporated)
• Inventors: Arndt, Elizabeth A., Korolchuk, Theodore
• Granted Patent: US 9,392,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/622
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 2/38 Seed germs; Germinated cereals; Extracts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 6/00 Other treatment of flour or dough before baking, e.g. cooling, irradiating, heating
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 7/198 Dry unshaped finely divided cereal products, not provided for in groups A23L7/117 - A23L7/196 and A23L29/00, e.g. meal, flour, powder, dried cereal creams or extracts
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 23/08 Separating or sorting of material, associated with crushing or disintegrating B02C23/18 takes precedence ; beater mills combined with sifting devices B02C13/13, B02C13/14; for tumbling mills B02C17/1835
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 9/04 Systems or sequences of operations; Plant

Abstract

A grain product includes a first fraction including bran and a second fraction including germ. The first fraction is milled to a first particle size of less than 500 micrometers. The second fraction is milled to a second particle size of less than 500 micrometers. The grain product is at least one of: a food product, a nutritional supplement, a dietary supplement, a fiber supplement, a digestive supplement, a functional food, and a medical food.

Claims

1. A coarse fraction produced from cleaned wheat kernels comprising:

primarily bran and germ; and

a particle size distribution such that at least 98 wt % of the coarse fraction is less than or equal to 212 μ

m.