04.01.03
Quaker Oats/Rhone-Poulenc Partnership, Cranberry, NJ, has received U.S. patent No. 6,531,178 for a beta glucan food additive. The method for abstracting high levels of beta glucan from a grain to produce a product containing at least about 18% by weight beta glucan is provided. Methods are also provided for enriching a food product with the beta glucan-agglomerated food additive to produce an enriched resulting food product.