DE29905853U1 - Natural food with honey - Google Patents

Description

Wolfgang Heitsch ° Patent Attorney ° Göhlsdorfer Straße 25g ° 14778 Jeser ig

(4.039.99/described]

Natural food with honey

The invention relates to a natural food product containing honey.

Honey is a very popular and widely consumed food. It is often added to dishes and food preparations as edible honey, is most commonly used as a spread and is used in the production of various baked goods and confectionery as well as alcoholic beverages.

The importance of honey as a food, beverage and medicine is mainly based on its content of easily absorbable carbohydrates, aromatic substances that stimulate the appetite and mineral components and trace elements, of which calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, silicon, copper and nickel are found in almost all types of honey. In medicine, honey is used as a tonic for those recovering because of its high nutritional value. Furthermore, honey is used as a versatile therapeutic agent precisely because of its ingredients.

The value of honey as a food, beverage and medicine is therefore undisputed. However, the value of honey is far from being reflected in its consumption. For many consumers, honey is too sweet and its typical honey flavors taste too strongly of honey.

There are many efforts to remedy these disadvantages. There are honey jams, honey fruit spreads, so-called fruit honeys, in which honey is flavoured with fruit concentrates from fruit pulp, fruit pulp and the like, on the market.

These are cooked fruit spreads sweetened with honey. They differ little in sensory terms from conventional fruit spreads, i.e. fruit spreads with added sugar. Cooking causes the honey, which is only present in small quantities in these products anyway, to lose its nutritional value. Enzymes, inhibins and similar ingredients are largely destroyed by cooking. The shelf life of honey jams and honey fruit spreads is limited. Portions that have been torn open in particular are intended for immediate consumption. To counteract this, preservatives are increasingly being added to such products on an industrial scale, which in turn are rejected by an increasing number of consumers.

Honeys mixed or flavored with fruit concentrates may have a maximum water content of 18 to 21 % , otherwise fermentation, typical of honey, will occur. Additions of concentrates of fruit pulp, fruit juice, fruit pulp and the like increase the total water content because the residual moisture of such concentrates is too high. As a result, only small amounts of these additives are used. The result is that the sensory impression of these products does not have a fruity character, so the honey aroma remains dominant. The ingredients inherent in the additives such as fruit pulp, fruit juice concentrate, fruit pulp and the like are destroyed by the concentrate production with increasing dehydration.

All of the aforementioned products are not essentially natural products in which the particularly health-promoting and nutritionally valuable components of honey have been preserved.

DE-AS 1 003 560 describes a process for producing honey products in which a solution of gelatinized starch is mixed with honey, the mixture is left to stand at around 45 ^° C to break down the starch and, after adding citric acid, is cooled and concentrated in a vacuum. According to special embodiments, other ingredients, in particular milk or milk powder, are added to the products made from honey and starch.

The disadvantage of such products is their short shelf life and the reduction in the valuable ingredients typical of honey due to processing.
EP 0 087 669 B1 describes a food concentrate based on honey which has a suitable ratio of protein, fat and carbohydrates and is intended to be used either as a sole supply or as a nutritional supplement. The food concentrate should be suitable for direct consumption as an ingredient or for special purposes - for example in sports, in old age, in youth or during pregnancy and for special dietary requirements. Various additives such as vegetable oils, mineral mixtures, milk protein, vitamin mixtures, lecithin, high-protein and low-lactose powdered milk concentrates, alpha-cellulose, pregelatinized flours from corn, rice, millet and the like, as well as other ingredients, give this food concentrate its completeness. Since this invention is a food concentrate and, as stated, it contains a corresponding number of ingredients, the end product is correspondingly expensive and not suitable for daily consumption.

All of these well-known products have the disadvantage that they can either only be produced in a complicated way or that they spoil quickly and easily or - as is the case with the latter food concentrate - that the product is too expensive.

The present invention is therefore based on the task of proposing a natural foodstuff with a high proportion of honey. The honey-containing composition proposed by the invention should, although honey is dominant in its mass proportions, have a non-typical honey taste. In particular, it should not taste as sweet as honey. Furthermore, the task of the invention is to preserve the ingredients of honey and the ingredients of additives and to guarantee a long shelf life. The task according to the invention provides for the use of this honey-containing composition as a spread for bread and baked goods and as a starting material for natural remedies and additives in the production of baked goods and confectionery as well as muesli and cornflakes, dairy products and ice creams.

According to the invention, a natural foodstuff with honey and dehydrated plant components ground into powder is proposed, which preferably has a composition of 92 to 98.2 parts by weight of honey, 1.8 to 8 parts by weight of plant powder and/or 1.8 to 8 parts by weight of herbs and/or 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of spices and 0.05 to 0.2 parts by weight of vitamins. The dehydrated plant components are preferably freeze-dried plant components. It is within the scope of the invention to add other bee products, preferably bee bread, flower pollen, white larvae juice and/or propolis extract, to the product.

The product produced in this way has a long shelf life, good spreadability and a taste primarily determined by the plant components and/or spices and/or herbs.

The product according to the invention is used for human consumption, preferably as a spread, as well as a starting material for the production of natural remedies and as an additive for baked goods and confectionery, as well as muesli and cornflakes, dairy products and ice creams.

The features of the invention emerge not only from the claims but also from the description, whereby the individual features, either individually or in combination in the form of sub-combinations of the elements, represent advantageous, protectable embodiments for which protection is sought in this document.

The invention is explained in more detail below using several embodiments:

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Natural food product with honey in the following composition:

99.3 parts honey by weight
0.5 parts by weight of spices
0.2 parts by weight of vitamin C

Example 2:

Natural food product with honey in the following composition:

95.8 parts by weight of honey

4 parts fruit powder and herbs

0.2 parts by weight of vitamin C

Example 3:

Natural food product with honey in the following composition:

94 to 98 parts by weight of honey

1.8 to 5.8 parts by weight fruit powder

0.2 parts by weight of vitamin C

It is within the scope of the invention to interchange the ingredients mentioned in Examples 1 to 3 and to vary their quantities.

Claims (1)

Wolfgang Heitsch ° Patent Attorney ° Göhlsdorfer Straße 25g ° 14778 Jeserig [4.039.99/ansprOl] Protection claims 1. Natural foodstuff with honey and vegetable ingredients, characterized in that it consists of at least 92 parts by weight of honey and at least 1 part by weight of dehydrated vegetable powder. 2. Natural food according to claim 1, characterized in that it contains freeze-dried plant components in powder form. 3. Natural foodstuff according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that it contains fruits, preferably fruit, berries and/or wild fruits, as plant components. 4. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 3, characterized in that finely ground spices and/or herbs, preferably fennel, elderflower, peppermint, St. John's wort, rosemary, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, anise, ginger, thyme, chamomile, coriander, curry and/or caraway, are included as plant components. 5. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it contains 1 to 8 parts by weight of herbs and/or 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of spices and 0.05 to 0.2 parts by weight of vitamins. 6. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 5, characterized in that it contains vitamin C. 7. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 6, characterized in that it contains bee products, preferably bee bread, flower pollen, white larvae juice and/or propolis extract. 8. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 7, characterized in that it contains an acidifying agent. 9. Natural foodstuff according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 8, characterized in that it has a taste determined by plant components.