	US 11,805,787 B2
	Food compositions incorporating agricultural marc, and methods of producing thereof
Torey Arvik, Vallejo, CA (US); and Ralph Jerome, New Hope, PA (US)
Assigned to Sonomaceuticals, LLC, Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed by Sonomaceuticals, LLC, Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,179.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/092,976, filed on Oct. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0117254 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A23G 1/48 (2006.01)

CPC A23G 1/48 (2013.01) [A23G 2200/14 (2013.01)]

32 Claims

1. A food composition, comprising:

chocolate; and

milled agricultural marc, wherein the agricultural marc is a byproduct of fruit juicing or fruit processing, and wherein the agricultural marc comprises at least two of seeds, skins, and pulp,

wherein (i) the milled agricultural marc is present in an amount of between 1% and 50% by weight of the total food composition; or (ii) the weight ratio of chocolate to marc is between 1:1 and 100:1, or both, and

wherein the milled agricultural marc is milled grape marc, milled cranberry marc, milled blueberry marc, milled blackberry marc, milled raspberry marc, milled mulberry marc, milled huckleberry marc, milled chokeberry marc, milled elderberry marc, milled gooseberry marc, milled lingonberry marc, milled boysenberry marc, milled red currant marc, milled black currant marc, milled acai berry marc, milled goji berry marc, milled cape gooseberry marc, or milled pomegranates marc, or any combination thereof.