US Patent Issued to Cargill on July 28 for "Plant-based deli meat analogue products comprising titanium dioxide" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,601, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Plant-based deli meat analogue products comprising titanium dioxide" was invented by Lasika Shyamalie Senaratne-Lenagala (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant-based deli meat analogue product is prepared by hydrating non-gluten plant protein with the aqueous titanium dioxide mixture, and then mixing with plant-based oil and hydrocolloid, Vital Wheat Gluten, and edible acid to form a plant-based dough that is formed into a dough log and cooked to an internal temp of at least about 180deg F. to form a plant-based deli meat analogue product. By selec...