Abstract: The invention concerns a microfoamed fruit or vegetable puree containing native defatted soluble seric proteins and optionally a texturing agent, the overrun being not more than 50%, the average diameter of the bubbles being less than 200 ?m and the microfoamed fruit or vegetable purée being stable for at least 28 days at a temperature ranging between 1 and 10° C. The invention also concerns a method for preparing same.

Abstract: The invention concerns a microfoamed fresh dairy product containing native defatted soluble seric proteins and microcrystalline cellulose, the overrun being less than 20%, the average diameter of the bubbles being less than 200 ?m and the microfoamed fresh dairy product being stable for a period ranging between 12 days and 6 weeks, at a temperature between 1 and 10° C. The invention also concerns a method for making same.

Abstract: The invention concerns a microfoamed fruit or vegetable puree containing native defatted soluble seric proteins and optionally a texturing agent, the overrun being not more than 50%, the average diameter of the bubbles being less than 200 ?m and the microfoamed fruit or vegetable purée being stable for at least 28 days at a temperature ranging between 1 and 10° C. The invention also concerns a method for preparing same.

Abstract: The invention concerns a gum carob with average mole weight (Mw) ranging between 2.5.105 and 1.5.106 g/mol and whereof at least 60 wt. % of said gum is soluble in an aqueous medium at a temperature not higher than 60° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a food product containing one or more live micro-organisms and at least one bioactive food ingredient of interest, in which the bioactive food ingredient(s) of interest is protected by means of encapsulation in a fat, such as to reduce the metabolisation thereof by the aforementioned live micro-organisms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heteropolysaccharide (HP) characterized in that it can be obtained by fermentation of a medium comprising at least one strain of Pseudomonas sp I-2054 (or DSM 12295), one of the recombinants thereof or the mutants thereof and a source of carbon which can be assimilated by said strain, one of the recombinants thereof or one of the mutants thereof. The invention also relates to a method for the production and use of said heteropolysaccharide as a thickening agent and/or gelling agent.

Abstract: The invention concerns a composition comprising an inorganic coating and a core comprising at least a polyhydroxyl compound, the method for preparing this composition and it use.

Abstract: The invention concerns a gum carob with average mole weight (Mw) ranging between 2.5.105 and 1.5.106 g/mol and whereof at least 60 wt. % of said gum is soluble in an aqueous medium at a temperature not higher than 60° C.

Abstract: The invention concerns a dry emulsion characterised in that it is obtained by drying a dispersion of at least a weakly soluble edible substance also called active substance (MA) in a continuous phase comprising: at least an emulsifier (E) containing at least a partially hydrolysed vegetable protein (protein lysate) whereof the degree of hydrolysis ranges between 0 (excluded) and less than 5%; and at least a water soluble or water dispersible interstitial filler (ARI) containing at least a partially hydrolysed vegetable protein (protein lysate) whereof the degree of hydrolysis ranges between 5 and 40%. The invention also concerns a method for preparing said emulsions, comprising the following steps: (i) a first step consists in preparing a dispersion in water or in an aqueous phase comprising at least a hydrophobic active substance (MA), at least an emulsifier (E), and at least a filler (ARI); (ii) the second step consists in drying said dispersion until a dry emulsion is formed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a capsule comprising at least a mineral coating (E) and a core (N) comprising at least a polyhydroxylated compound (P), each coat essentially consisting of a single mineral compound. The mineral coating (E) advantageously consisting of a single mineral compound layer. The invention also concerns a method for obtaining said capsules and their use.

Abstract: The invention concerns a dispersible and fast hydrating biopolymer in dry form, characterized in that at least 75 wt. % of said biopolymer particles have a diameter ranging between 60 and 250 microns and a mean diameter (d50) ranging between 100 and 200 microns. The invention also concerns the use of such a biopolymer as thickening or viscosity, emulsifying and/or stabilizing agent in industrial, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations.

Abstract: The invention concerns a heteropolysaccharide (HP) characterised in that it is obtainable by fermenting in a medium comprising at least an Agrobacterium radiobacter I-2001 (or DSM 12095) strain, one of its recombinants, or one of its mutants, and a carbon source capable of being assimilated by said strain, one of its recombinants or one of its mutants. The invention also concerns a method for preparing said heteropolysaccharide and its use as thickening and/or gelling agent.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use, in dry form, of a combination of substantially amorphous microfibrils with a crystallinity index not more than 50%, with at least a polyhydroxylated compound, as additive for food formulations, the content of this combination being more than 0% and less than 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the food formulation.

Abstract: Latices of monodisperse magnetizable microspheres contain a hydrophobic polymer matrix and magnetizable fillers. The microspheres have a calibrated particle-size distribution and a size of around 0.1-5 micrometers, and the polymer matrix, produced by a dispersion polymerization method, includes polymer chains derived from at least one vinyl monomer. The latices are useful in biology, in particular, for diagnostic and affinity chromatography methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glycosylated particle of latex or of inorganic oxide, exhibiting functional radicals at the surface. At least a proportion of said functional radicals is joined to a glycosyl residue.The particles preferably consist either of polymers obtained by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers or of silica.The invention finds an application as a detection agent in biology.

Abstract: The invention relates to a latex microsphere consisting of polymers obtained by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers, having functional groups at the surface, and remarkable in that biotinyl residues are grafted onto at least part of the said groups, via a divalent chain.It also relates to the avidin- or streptavidin-biotin complex obtained with the aid of the said microsphere and to the use of the microsphere or of the complex as agent for diagnosis, for biological assay or for immunological assay.

Abstract: A fluorescent latex with particles containing at least one encapsulated hydrophobic fluorochrome A (acceptor) and at least one encapsulated hydrophobic fluorochrome D (donor), wherein A is different from D and exposure to light radiation enables the emission from fluorochrome D to excite fluorochrome A, and a method for producing said latex and its use as a marker, particularly a biological marker, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Fluorescent latices, well suited for a wide variety of analytical techniques, comprise polymer particles having at least one hydrophobic fluorochrome encapsulated therein, notably at least one condensed polyaromatic compound or derivative thereof, or a tetraphenylporphine and/or organometallic complex thereof, and have a detection threshold for fluorescence which is less than or equal to 10.sup.-12 mol of particles per liter of latex.

Abstract: Graft polysaccharides comprising a polymer backbone consisting essentially of a polydextrose having an average-weight molecular mass of less than 10,000 and grafts grafted thereon derived from a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The graft polysaccharides are useful as sequestering agents for alkaline-earth metal ions.