EDIBLE COCOA PRODUCT Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC A23G1/48 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the food industry. Proposed cocoa product suitable for food has homogeneous chocolate mass, which is uniform in terms of size and homogeneous in terms of type, consistency and taste, wherein one contains grains of buckwheat grains. Grains have dimensions of fragments which make between 50 mcm and 2000 mcm, of which a first fraction of grains with a size of fragments between 50 mcm and 200 mcm, a second fraction of grains with a size of fragments between 200 mcm and 500 mcm, as well as a third fraction of grains with size of fragments between 500 mcm and 2000 mcm are distributed in solid chocolate mass. First portion is greater than the second portion, and the second portion is greater than the third portion. Grains of buckwheat grains are produced during pre-treatment buckwheat grains texture determining the grains at which grains of buckwheat are subjected to at least one roasting with addition of edible vegetable oil. Debranned grains of buckwheat are prepared without additional pretreatment and heated by way of roasting to produce pre-roasted buckwheat grains. To preliminary roasted buckwheat grains during the seasoning one adds vegetable edible oil so that edible vegetable oil is introduced into pre-roasted buckwheat grains in an amount so that the buckwheat grains are completely wetted with edible vegetable oil throughout the surface. At that, roasting is performed with such duration, until buckwheat grains get a golden yellow colour caused by oil absorption and frying. Then they are subjected to further grinding. Grapes of buckwheat are mixed with homogeneous distribution in solid chocolate mass.

EFFECT: invention allows to produce a cocoa product with a creamy consistence when using ground beans as a nuts substitute.

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