Abstract: Microbial starter cultures. More specifically, a method for preparing a microbial culture such as a lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture wherein at least one microbial strain such as a lactic acid bacteria and at least one inactivated yeast strain is inoculated in a culture medium.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 10, 2020
Publication date:
February 2, 2023
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Neda FARAGHIPARAPARI, Marie Penderup JENSEN, Jakub KOVACS, Anisha GOEL
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of producing a Streptococcus thermophilus strain comprising the steps of a) Providing a mother strain in the form of Streptococcus thermophilus DSM32502, b) Growing a culture of the mother strain in the presence of a bacteriophage, to which the mother strain is not resistant, to obtain a number of mutant strains, which are resistant to the said bacteriophage, c) Measuring the acidification time of the bacteriophage-resistant mutant strains and the mother strain in a milk base and selecting at least one mutant strain with a reduced acidification time as compared to the mother strain to obtain a fast-acidifying mutant strain.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 31, 2023
Assignee:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Jeorgos Trihaas, Thomas Janzen, Patrick Derkx
Abstract: The present invention relates to a Streptococcus thermophilus strain, wherein the strain is galactose-fermenting, wherein the strain carries a mutation in the DNA sequence of the glcK gene encoding a glucokinase protein, wherein the mutation inactivates the glucokinase protein or has a negative effect on expression of the gene, and wherein the strain carries a mutation in the promoter region of the GalK gene encoding a galactokinase protein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 3, 2023
Assignee:
CHR. HANSEN A/S
Inventors:
Gaelle Lettier Buchhorn, Kim Ib Soerensen, Mette Pia Junge
Abstract: Present invention relates to new processes for making Swiss cheeses or Continental cheeses type with an improvement of eyes formation and distribution. This present invention relates the culture design and use of particles with defined properties based on technical knowledges about eyes formation. More specifically the present invention relates to a process for making cheese, the process comprising: a. Obtaining a milk composition b. Optionally maturing said milk composition by physical, chemical or biological means c. Adding particles with a size of 1 ?m to 50 ?m to said milk composition d. Adding lactic acid bacteria and/or proprionic bacteria e. Adding coagulant, wherein steps c, d, and e may be done in random order, sequentially or simultaneously f. and further processing the composition to produce a cheese.
Abstract: The present invention provides novel Lactococcus lactis lactic acid bacterium strains having improved texturing properties and methods of using the strains for producing food products.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 21, 2020
Publication date:
December 22, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Vera Kuzina POULSEN, Gunnar OEREGAARD, Elahe Ghanei MOGHADAM
Abstract: Disclosed are peptides and dimeric peptides exhibiting beta-galactosidase enzyme activity, as well as methods for producing a dairy product using them, and dairy products made by such methods. In some embodiments, the peptides exhibit beta-galactosidase enzyme activity at low and/or high temperatures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 13, 2022
Assignee:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Hans Raj, Pernille Smith, Thomas Eckhardt, Vojislav Vojinovic, Charlotte Elisabeth Grüner Schöller, Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink
Abstract: The present invention relates to a direct vat set starter culture composition comprising lactic acid bacteria comprising a manganese transporter for fermenting a food product and for inhibiting or delaying growth of fungi in said food product, characterized in that the composition comprises up to 600 ppm of manganese.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 21, 2020
Publication date:
December 8, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Anisha GOEL, Cecilie Lykke Marvig NIELSEN, Helle Skov GULDAGER, Silja Kej DIEMER, Karen Lise Vestergaard ANDERSEN
Abstract: The present invention relates to new strains of Bacillus paralicheniformis with improved growth rates and plant growth promoting properties and new strains of Bacillus paralicheniformis with improved growth rates when compared to their parental strains from where they are derived.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 28, 2020
Publication date:
November 3, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Patricia Dominguez Cuevas, Raquel Azevedo, Karin BJERRE, Iuliana Nita, Rute Neves, Lars Moelbak
Abstract: The present invention relates to mutants of lactic acid bacteria which are resistant to the antibiotic ampicillin and which were found to give an increased texture when grown in milk while maintaining the other growth properties of the parent strain. The present invention, furthermore, relates to compositions comprising such mutants, and to dairy products fermented with the lactic acid bacteria resistant to ampicillin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 3, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 1, 2022
Assignee:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Eric Johansen, Kim Ib Soerensen, Annette Kibenich
Abstract: A method for producing a fermented milk product (e.g. a yogurt) with a relatively high stable pH value at the end of the fermentation comprising inoculating milk with Streptococcus thermophilus (ST) Gal(+) bacteria.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 19, 2020
Publication date:
October 6, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Thomas JANZEN, Ditte Ellegaard CHRISTIANSEN
Abstract: The present invention relates to new improved methods for expressing native lactases in their native hosts. Methods for homologous as well as heterologous expression of lactase in lactic acid bacteria with altered expression dynamics are comprised by present invention.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 27, 2020
Publication date:
September 29, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Hans RAJ, Charlotte Elisabeth Grüner SCHÖLLER, Kim Ib SOERENSEN, Johannes Maarten VAN DEN BRINK, Ahmad ZEIDAN, Martin Holm RAU, Paula GASPAR, George Nabin BAROI
Abstract: Process for producing an ambient storage food product comprising providing a food product with a pH of between 3.4 and 4.4, subjecting the food product to a heat treatment to obtain a heat treated food product, adding aseptically to the heat treated food product one or more of ambient storage lactic acid bacteria strains to obtain an ambient storage food product, and storing the ambient storage food product at ambient temperature for a period of time, wherein the ambient storage lactic acid bacteria strain is selected from the group consisting of strains: (i) wherein the strain is capable of retaining viability at the end of 20 days at a temperature of 25 #C; and (ii) wherein the pH at most decreases 0.8 units during the storage period; and (iii) wherein the strain is selected from the group consisting of strains of the genus Oenococcus, and mutants thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2020
Publication date:
September 29, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Christian GILLELADEN, Victoria PREBNER, Kim Ib SOERENSEN
Abstract: The Lactobacillus curvatus strain deposited as DSM18775 is used as a biopreservative culture in a wide range of meat products due to its production of bacteriocin. The present invention relates to Lactobacillus curvatus strains having an extended lag phase of at least 24 hours at 30° C. relative to DSM18775. In a presently preferred embodiment, the strains are mutants of DSM18775, such as the Lactobacillus curvatus strain deposited as DSM32590 and the Lactobacillus curvatus strain deposited as DSM 32591. Further, the invention relates to a method for inhibiting Listeria in a food product comprising adding bacteria of a Lactobacillus curvatus strain according to the invention to a food product in a concentration of at least 105 CFU/g.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2018
Date of Patent:
September 27, 2022
Assignee:
CHR. HANSEN A/S
Inventors:
Per Stroeman, Christian Elmshaeuser, Kim Ib Soerensen, Tim Martin Seibert, Rute Neves
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for quantifying the inhibition capacity of at least one, potentially inhibiting, first bacterial or yeast strain towards a gas producing, potentially undesirable, second bacterial or yeast strain, based on a measure of the total gas production. Examples of a first bacterial or yeast strain are probiotic bacterial strains of the genus Bacillus, Lactobacillus or Lactococcus, and examples of the gas producing bacterial or yeast strain are bacteria such as Clostridium, fusobacteria, Escherichia coli and Salmonella or yeast such as Saccharomyces or Pichia.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 6, 2020
Publication date:
September 15, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Giuseppe COPANI, Line SKJOET-RASMUSSEN, Nina MILORA, Audrey SEGURA
Abstract: The present invention provides novel Lactococcus lactis lactic acid bacterium strains having improved texturing properties and methods of using the strains for producing food products.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 21, 2020
Publication date:
September 15, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Vera Kuzina POULSEN, Gunnar OEREGAARD, Elahe Ghanei MOGHADAM
Abstract: Present invention relates to new strains of Bacillus paralicheniformis with improved ability to form biofilm and colonize the rhizosphere when compared to their parental strains from where they are derived.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 28, 2020
Publication date:
August 25, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Patricia Dominguez CUEVAS, Rute NEVES, Raquel AZEVEDO, Lars MOELBAK, Lorenzo FIMOGNARI
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for producing fermented milk products with increased amount of probiotic bacteria. In particular, the invention relates to a process for producing a fermented milk which comprises adding to a milk base (i) a starter culture comprising at least one lactose-deficient Streptococcus thermophilus strain, which is capable of metabolizing a non-lactose carbohydrate, and at least one lactose-deficient Lactobacillus strain, which is capable of metabolizing a non-lactose carbohydrate, (ii) one or more non-lactose carbohydrate capable of being metabolized by the lactic acid bacteria, in an amount measured so as to become depleted when the pH of the fermented milk product is between 4.9 and 5.5 and (iii) a probiotic strain selected from a Lactobacillus strain and a Bifidobacterium strain. In addition, the present invention relates to compositions and to fermented milk food or feed products produced by the process of the invention.
Abstract: The present invention relates to Lactococcus starter cultures that are compatible with nisin-producing strains and simultaneously do not degrade nisin. The present invention defines starter cultures that can be used in combination with nisin-producing cultures, without degradation of nisin. Furthermore, it is also disclosed that starter cultures can be made by a combination of nisin-producing strains and strains containing nisin-immunity genes and/or and absent of the gene to prevent degradation of nisin.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 2, 2020
Publication date:
August 4, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Thomas ECKHARDT, Jannik VINDELOEV, Kristian Fog NIELSEN, Gunnar OEREGAARD
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for encapsulating a bioactive agent such as a microorganism, methods for making a modified food, feed, cosmetic, plant health, seed health or pharmaceutical product comprising heteropolymer particles encapsulating a bioactive agent such as a microorganism, compositions and modified products comprising heteropolymer particles of a phenolic compound and a protein, and a bioactive agent encapsulated therein obtainable by such methods. Also provided is a method for delivering a bioactive agent to a subject, comprising administering to said subject the modified food, feed, cosmetic, plant health, seed health or pharmaceutical product described herein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 15, 2020
Publication date:
July 28, 2022
Applicant:
Chr. Hansen A/S
Inventors:
Surender Kumar DHAYAL, Martin LUND, Henrik BISGAARD-FRANTZEN, Johannes Maarten VAN DEN BRINK