US Patent Issued to FUJI OIL on May 19 for "Method for producing cheese-like snack food" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,843, issued on May 19, was assigned to FUJI OIL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing cheese-like snack food" was invented by Tomonori Sato (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiroko Yonemoto (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kenichi Furutani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cheese-like snack food that is capable of maintaining flavor for several weeks even in a state where a package is opened and has improved storage stability. The cheese-like snack food having improved storage stability can be provided by freeze-drying a soymilk preparation prepared by using soymilk as a raw material, adding an oil and fat, and starch to the soy...