ACIDIFICATION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

• Main Authors: ATHULA EKANAYAKE, JEFFREY JOHN KESTER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 07.02.2013
• Subjects: CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

A process for acidifying a food product. The process can include providing a food product having an initial pH, adding a first acid to the food product so as to adjust the initial pH of the food product to an intermediate pH of the food product, adding a second acid to the food product so as to adjust the intermediate pH of the food product to a final pH of the food product, wherein an acidified food product having the final p is produced. Un proceso para acidificar un producto alimenticio. El proceso puede incluir proporcionar un producto alimenticio con un pH inicial, añadir un primer ácido al producto alimenticio para ajustar el pH inicial del producto alimenticio a un pH intermedio del producto alimenticio, añadir un segundo ácido al producto alimenticio para ajustar el pH intermedio del producto alimenticio a un pH final del producto alimenticio, en donde se produce un producto alimenticio acidificado que tiene el pH final.