Patent 7258888 was granted and assigned to General Mills on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Described are methods of treating wheat grain, including reducing the amount of active enzymes in a milled wheat grain by treating a portion of the wheat grain that includes one or more of wheat bran or wheat germ to deactivate enzymes; as well as flour and dough compositions prepared from the treated portion of wheat grain.