METHOD OF PRODUCING FOOD GRANULES Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC A23L27/20 A23L23/10 A23P10/25 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to production of food granules. Disclosed is a method of producing food granules of culinary products, which are concentrated soup, concentrated sauce, refueling, food seasoning or food garnish, including citric acid particles, additional crystalline ingredients and oil, comprising the steps of: a) coating citric acid particles with oil; b) mixing the oil-coated citric acid particles with additional crystalline ingredients selected from sodium chloride, sodium glutamate, sugar or a combination thereof; c) controlling moisture content in mixture at step b) to water content of 7–13 wt %, wet weight, by adding water and/or an aqueous composition which is a vegetable or fruit puree, vegetable or fruit juice, a fermentative supernatant, a liquid herbal or meat extract or syrup to obtain a moist mass; d) cold extrusion of moist mass through a sieve to produce granules; e) drying the granules to a moisture content of 0.5–7.0 wt %, wet weight; wherein oil is liquid at temperature of 20 °C, wherein food granules include oil in weight ratio of dry substances from 0.25:1 to 5:1 with respect to citric acid particles, wherein food granules include citric acid particles in amount of 0.1–7.0 wt %, and steps a), b), c) and d) are carried out at temperature of 4 to 30 °C. Also disclosed are food granules of culinary products, which are concentrated soup, concentrated sauce, dressing, food seasoning or food garnish, and which are porous granules and have size from 0.5 to 8.0 mm, preferably from 0.8 to 5.0 mm, determined from the largest diameter of the granule.

EFFECT: invention is aimed at preservation of natural aspect of aroma, taste and color of initial ingredients in ready granules.

13 cl, 5 tbl, 2 ex