Dry dessert mix composition and process

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Described is a dry dessert mix composition for use in preparing a tangy or yoghurt-like dessert by reconstitution of the mix with milk and comprising a pregelatinized starch, an edible acid and a hydrocolloid gum. In recent years instant pudding mixes which rely, on the use of thickeners and milk coagulating agents and coagulating accelerators and thereby eliminate the need for cooking by the housewife have become widely available and accepted. These pudding mixes, however are usually limited, to the non-sour type flavors such chocolate vanilla, etc. Further, although liquid yoghurt analogs and yoghurtlike products may be made with direct acidification this, manufacture involves rather …