Vegetable-and/or fruit-containing snack foods and manufacture thereof

A vegetable- and/or fruit-containing snack food, the snack food comprising a sheet having a thickness of from 1 to 8 mm, the sheet comprising a rigid starch matrix comprising potato starch and a plurality of individual pieces of vegetable and/or fruit randomly distributed throughout the matrix, wher...

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Hauptverfasser: Thomas Stanley Bullock, Alberto Javier Granero Rodriguez, Rebecca Reason, James Williams, Debora Saibene, Paul Derek Hetherton
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A vegetable- and/or fruit-containing snack food, the snack food comprising a sheet having a thickness of from 1 to 8 mm, the sheet comprising a rigid starch matrix comprising potato starch and a plurality of individual pieces of vegetable and/or fruit randomly distributed throughout the matrix, wherein at least 50% by number of the pieces have a minimum dimension of at least 0.75 mm and a maximum dimension of up to 7 mm, wherein the matrix defines therein a first cellular structure of first cellular pores having a first pore size distribution and the pieces define therein a second cellular structure of second cellular pores having a second pore size distribution, at least some of the second cellular pores are defined by polysaccharide cell walls of the respective vegetable and/or fruit, and the first pore size distribution has a larger number-average pore size and a wider distribution than the second pore size distribution. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.