US Patent Issued to KELLANOVA on Feb. 17 for "Vegetable based snack stick" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,915, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KELLANOVA (Battle Creek, Mich.).

"Vegetable based snack stick" was invented by Md Monjur Hossen (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Amy Shouldice (Battle Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making an encased vegetable based jerky includes the steps of: hydrating a texturized vegetable protein mixture to form a fibrous mass; hydrating a gel forming vegetable protein isolate to form a protein gel; mixing the protein gel with the fibrous mass to form a mixed mass; extruding the mixed mass into a casing to form a cased mass; and cooking and drying the cased mass to form encased vegetable ba...