CULTURES ENCAPSULATED WITH CHOCOLATE FOOD PRODUCTS COATED WITH CHOCOLATE AND METHODS OF PREPARATION

摘要

Food products are provided comprising a food base and the chocolate or cocoabutter encapsulated pro-biotic, especially lactic acid forming cultures, as acoating or portion or phase of the food product. The food base can include thechocolate or cocoa butter encapsulated pro-biotic as a topical coating orphase or portion. The food base or foodstuff is dried and has a water activityranging from about 0.1 to about 0.35. The weight ratio of food base tochocolate or cocoa butter encapsulated pro-biotic ranges from about 100:1 toabout 100:400. The pieces of the coated food base can be admixed with piecesof uncoated dried food base of the same or different composition to providedesired levels of pro-biotic fortification.