403 results about "Nutritional products" patented technology

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a biomass, such as from a microbial fermentation, for an extraction process to separate desired chemicals, nutritional products, bioactive components, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, from the biomass. Particularly preferred substances to extract include docosahexaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid, and arachidonic acid. The present invention also includes extracting the prepared biomass. Biomasses to be treated in accordance with the methods of the invention include plant, animal, and microbial biomass, particularly a microorganism such as Crypthecodinium cohnii and a fungus such as Mortierella alpina.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a biomass, such as from a microbial fermentation, for an extraction process to separate desired chemicals, nutritional products, bioactive components, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, from the biomass. Particularly preferred substances to extract include docosahexaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid, and arachidonic acid. The present invention also includes extracting the prepared biomass. Biomasses to be treated in accordance with the methods of the invention include plant, animal, and microbial biomass, particularly a microorganism such as Crypthecodinium cohnii and a fungus such as Mortierella alpina.

The present invention includes a palatable, stable composition comprising a biomass hydrolysate emulsion for incorporation, into, or used as, nutritional products, cosmetic products or pharmaceutical products. Preferred sources for biomass are microbial sources, plant sources and animal sources. The present invention also provides methods for making such compositions, specifically, a method for producing a product comprising a nutrient, particularly a long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid, comprising hydrolyzing a biomass comprising the nutrient and emulsifying the hydrolyzed biomass. Such compositions and methods are useful, for example, for increasing intake of nutrients such as omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids having 18 or more carbons.

The present invention relates to a composition for maintenance of bone health or prevention, alleviation and / or treatment of bone disorders. It also relates to the use of the composition in the manufacture of a nutritional product, a supplement, a treat or a medicament; and a method of promoting bone growth or for the maintenance of bone health, which comprises administering an effective amount of the composition.

An emulsifying system for elemental diet compositions is provided that comprises a protein source that may be a extensively hydrolyzed protein, free amino acids, short-chain peptides, or a mixture thereof; a lipid source; a carbohydrate source; and an emulsifying system comprising an ocentyl succinic anhydride modified starch and an acetylated monoglyceride emulsifier. The composition may be prepared as a powder or liquid nutritional composition for formulas prepared for infant, pediatric and adult populations in need of an elemental diet. The invention provides a commercially acceptable product in terms of desired stability and physical characteristics and is particularly useful for hypoallergenic infant formula preparations.

The present invention relates to a lipid system, and methods for using such a lipid system, containing specific relative ratios of omega-3, omega-6, and omega-9 fatty acids. The lipid system may be used independently or as a component of a nutritional product. A lipid system according to the present invention may contain omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, and omega-9 fatty acids with the ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids preferably being between 0.25:1 and 3:1, and the ratio of omega-9 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids preferably being between 0.4:1 and 3:1. The present invention also relates to methods for administering a lipid system or a nutritional product containing the lipid system to an individual.

The present invention provides a particulate composition wherein an oil component (A) comprising a water-insoluble bioactive substance is poly-dispersed while forming a domain in a matrix comprising of a water-soluble excipient based on a water-soluble polymer, and wherein the sphericity of the particulate composition is not less than 0.9 and a method of producing the same. The particulate composition simultaneously has excellent water solubility, workability, tabletability and heat-resistance. It also provides a food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health uses, nutritional supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drink, feed, pet food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, prophylactic drug and the like, which contain the particulate composition.

Disclosed herein are nutritional substance labels that communicate in a format allowing retrieval of adaptive conditioning instructions unique to an individual nutritional product at the time of conditioning and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer.

The present invention relates to a nutritional product for HIV patients that are not on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. More specifically the invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising oligosaccharides. This invention also relates to the manufacture of a nutritional supplement for use in HIV patients.

An apparatus for dispensing nutritional products including a number of storage hoppers for powdered ingredients, a controllable outlet connected to each storage hopper and operable to release controlled amounts of the powdered ingredients, a controllable liquid supply, a mixer, and a control system including a user interface for capturing data from a user. The control system uses the data that the user inputs to determine the quantity of each powdered ingredient and the quantity of liquid to be released to create a nutritional product, and sends signals to the liquid supply and the outlets to release the determined quantity of liquid and each powdered ingredient into the mixer to be mixed before being dispensed into a container.

A device, a system and a computer program are provided for accepting and collecting demographic, OTC drug, prescription, and medical condition data, and outputting nutritional products, recipes, programs, meals, shopping lists, restaurant menus, and the like, designed for each unique user.

Methods of isolating, treating, storing and processing human milk, as well as nutritional formulations of human milk comprising protective human milk proteins.

Disclosed herein is a transformation system to create a nutritional substance product that obtains information regarding the nutritional substance components to be transformed, the desired transformation, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the transformed nutritional substance, and dynamically modifies the transformation in response to this information to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance product after it has been prepared for consumption.Various component nutritional substances are individually or collectively transformed and preserved, then provided to consumers or conditioners in a format allowing retrieval of preparation instructions unique to the individual nutritional product at the time of preparation and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer during transformation.

Disclosed are nutritional compositions and methods of using the compositions for treating or preventing osteoporosis. The compositions comprise (A) those dried fruit solids that inherently comprise flavonoids, hydroxycinnamic acids, and a fiber component of which at least about 20% by weight is soluble fiber, and (B) a soluble, indigestible oligosaccharide in addition to any soluble fiber inherently in the dried fruit solids. The dried fruit solids may also be characterized as those selected from dried plum, dried grape, dried date, or dried fig. The combination of dried fruit solids (e.g., dried plum solids) and soluble indigestible oligosaccharides (e.g., fructooligosaccharides) have been found to be surprisingly more effective in affecting bone mineral density than either component when used alone, thus allowing for reduced concentrations of such ingredients in a nutritional product form such as a beverage or solid nutritional bar.

To help consumers around the world reduce the confusion and complexity of choosing among thousands of wellness products that are effective for their particular medical conditions and / or wellness goals, the present inventor, devised one or more exemplary systems, methods, software, and data structures for recommending products, such as health, fitness, and nutritional products, to consumers. One exemplary system receives user profile information, such as gender, age, medical condition(s), wellness goal(s), biometric data, allergies and sensitivities, and / or nutrition information, and recommends products based on the consumer profiles and product ingredient efficacy and / or contraindications for the medical conditions and / or wellness goals. The system recommends the most scientifically effective products for a particular consumer, while accounting for contraindications thereby reducing risk potentially harmful products. The system ultimately empowers consumers around the world to make safer and more knowledgeable decisions regarding their own wellness.

The present invention provides a particulate composition wherein an oil component containing reduced coenzyme Q10 is polydispersed forming a domain in a matrix containing a water-soluble excipient, which simultaneously shows high oxidative stability and high oral absorbability, a production method thereof, and a stabilizing method thereof. It also provides a food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health uses, dietary supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drink, feed, pet food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, prophylactic drug and the like, which contain the composition.

The present disclosure relates to milk-based nutritional compositions for pediatric subjects, such as children's nutritional products and infant formulas, comprising a protein source, a fat source, a carbohydrate source, and a source of β-1,3-glucan.

A time released nutritional food product and method of making it in is provided in which the product includes a plurality of grain or seed based constituents having plural digestion rates. In a preferred embodiment the product can be prepared by cooking the constituent parts together as a mixture at a substantially single length of cooking time. For example, the product while palatable, can be cooked by adding water, boiling for a given amount of time and eaten. In an embodiment the constituent parts include processed and unprocessed grains, at least one of which forms a gelatinous coating on the others when cooked.

Methods of isolating, treating, storing and processing human milk, as well as nutritional formulations of human milk comprising protective human milk proteins.

The present invention provides a method of increasing the absorbability of oxidized coenzyme Q10 by preparing the oxidized coenzyme Q10 as a composition in the presence of a lysolecithin and an oil and fat. The composition of the present invention comprising oxidized coenzyme Q10, a lysolecithin and an oil and fat, wherein the weight ratio of the lysolecithin to the oxidized coenzyme Q10 is not less than 0.7, shows superior absorption of oxidized coenzyme Q10 and can be utilized for food, food with nutrient function, food for specified health uses, nutritional supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, beverage, feed, pet food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, preventive drug and the like.

The invention relates to a method of reducing the intrinsic sugar content in a food product such as a juice or a ready to drink sugar based product, by contacting the food product with sufficient amounts of at least one transglycosidase under conditions sufficient to enzymatically convert intrinsic sugars in the food product to non-digestible carbohydrates and non-digestible oligosaccharides, such as fructo-oligosaccharides, and gluco-oligosaccharides to thus form a more nutritional product. The invention also relates to nutritional food products produced by the methods of the invention.

The invention relates to edible nutrition oil with an intelligence developing effect. The edible oil adopts plant grease as main raw materials, and is added with DHA algal oil, arachidonic acid grease and natural antioxidant, wherein the content of DHA is 0.01-0.5 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil, the content of arachidonic acid is 0.015-0.75 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil, and the content of the natural antioxidant is 0.01-0.3 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil. The fatty acid proportion of the nutrition oil is reasonable, the added DHA and the added arachidonic acid have the effects of brain building and intelligence developing, promoting the growth of the retina of a baby, and the like. The natural antioxidant is soybean vitamin E with the physiological activity being higher than that of synthetic vitamin E, and the oil can be ate more safely. The edible oil is balanced in nutrition, is high-end nutrition food healthy for all people, is particularly suitable for daily eating by pregnant woman, infants, children and middle-aged and elderly people, promotes the intelligence development of fetus and infants, eliminates the brain fatigue of young and middle-aged people, and prevents senile dementia of aged and elderly people.

The invention provides methods for treating muscle loss in an individual. In one embodiment, the invention includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a branched chain amino acid (BCAA), a BCAA precursor, a BCAA metabolite, a BCAA-rich protein, a protein manipulated to enrich the BCAA content or any combination thereof. The invention further provides nutritional products for such administration, including orally-administrable nutritional products

The invention relates to thickening compositions for thickening nutritional products to make the nutritional product suitable for consumption by dysphagia patients, said thickening composition comprising starch, xanthan gum and / or methylcellulose and galactomannan and / or glucomannan.

The present invention provides a composition superior in water-dispersibility / solubility, workability and tabletability, which contains coenzyme Q10, casein, and a saccharide other than polysaccharides, at a particular ratio. The composition can be utilized for food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health uses, nutritional supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drinks, feed, pharmaceutical product, quasi-drug, cosmetic and the like.

The present invention relates to composite nutritional products that have been reinforced with one or more pro-oxidative minerals selected from the group consisting of iron and copper, and that contain an appreciable amount of unsaturated fatty acids. More particularly, the invention provides a composite nutritional product comprising: •10-80 wt. % of a cereal-based cover containing at least 20 mg per kg of cover of pro-oxidative mineral selected from the group consisting of iron, copper and combinations thereof; and •20-90 wt. % of a lipids-based filling containing at least 5% of unsaturated fatty acids by weight of the filling. The composite nutritional products of the present invention exhibit good oxidation stability.

A low calorie sweetener composition with sweetness synergy, providing a reduction in off-taste and a desirable temporal profile. The sweetener composition is suitable for use as a substitute for high calorie sugars. The sweetener composition is for use in food and beverage products, pharmaceutical products, nutritional product and cosmetic products.

The present invention relates to a nutritional product, dietary supplement or pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of acne and related skin disorders. The invention also relates to a composition having a combination of ingredients such that it reduces symptoms associated with acne and related skin disorders. The invention relates to such a composition containing a variety of vitamins, minerals and one or more herbal medicine sources. In one preferred embodiment, the vitamins, minerals and one or more herbal medicine sources are present in an amount such that its mechanism of action is through inhibition of the growth of Propionobacterium acnes (P. acnes) and the inhibition of lipogenesis of sebum production. In another preferred embodiment, the invention contains a Vitamin A source to normalize keratinoid maturation, proliferation and turnover of skin cells. In another preferred embodiment, the invention further contains at least one of a Vitamin E source or Selenium. In another preferred embodiment, the invention further contains at least one of a Vitamin B6 source, a Pantothenic Acid source, Zinc or any active salt, and Chromium or any active salt. In another preferred embodiment, the invention further contains any one or more of an herbal source of Berberis aquifolium (Oregon grape root), Barberis vulgaris (barberry), Hydrastis Canadensis (goldenseal), or other herbal source of the compound berberine. The present invention also relates to a method of administering a therapeutically effective amount of the combination of ingredients for the treatment of acne and related skin disorders.