Pasta with a high content in dietary fibers and a reduced content in calories

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Dietetic food in the form of alimentary pasta with high content in alimentary fibers and reduced contents in calories for persons, on a hypocaloric diet containing the following ingredients in the following percentages of weight: hard corn bran 82-88 % glucomannan 3-1 %, fine bran of toasted hard corn 15-11 % water 45-55 , kgs per 100 kgs of mixture. The method comprises the steps of: a) adding fine bran to glucomannan; b) gradually adding bran to the mixture of glucomannan and fine bran mixing until homogeneity is reached; c) adding water at a temperature between 45· and 55·C to bring the mixture humidity to about 33-34 % kneading for about 20'; d) pouring off the knead in the load hopper …