Of Isolated Carbohydrate Patents (Class 426/48)
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Publication number: 20110045136Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having isoamylase activity derived from Dyella japonica and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the use of said polypeptide having isoamylase activity for producing glucose syrup, fructose syrup, maltose syrup or maltitol.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Tine Hoff, Carsten Sjoeholm, Barrie Edmund Norman
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Publication number: 20110045137Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to provide a method for inhibiting the coloration of a syrupy sweetener, comprising a reducing saccharide together with a non-reducing oligosaccharide having a ?-fructofuranosidic linkage, without deteriorating the taste inherent to the syrupy sweetener; and to provide a syrupy sweetener, comprising a reducing saccharide together with a non-reducing oligosaccharide having a ?-fructofuranosidic linkage, which is stabilized by the method. The present invention attains the above objects by providing a method for inhibiting the coloring of a syrupy sweetener, comprising a reducing saccharide together with a non-reducing oligosaccharide having a ?-fructofuranosidic linkage, which comprises a step of incorporating a lactate into the syrupy sweetener, and by providing a syrupy sweetener, comprising a reducing saccharide together with a non-reducing oligosaccharide having a ?-fructofuranosidic linkage, which is stabilized by the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventors: Kenshi Yoshida, Ikuo Sawatani, Hiroto Chaen, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Publication number: 20110033575Abstract: Pseudomonas saccharophila G4-forming amylase (PS4) variants, and nucleic acids encoding these, and their uses in producing food products and in an enzyme-catalyzed high temperature liquefaction step to produce ethanol from starch, e.g., cornstarch are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Karsten Matthias Kragh, Anja Hemmingsen Kellet-Smith, Andrew Shaw, Regina Chin
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Publication number: 20110020496Abstract: A branched dextrin insusceptible to digestion and having a low osmotic pressure, as well as a method for producing such a branched dextrin is provided. The branched dextrin characterized by having a structure wherein glucose or isomalto oligosaccharide is linked to a non-reducing terminal of a dextrin through an ?-1,6 glucosidic bond and having a DE of 10 to 52. A method characterized in that, in a method for producing a branched dextrin by allowing maltose-generating amylase and transglucosidase to act on an aqueous dextrin solution, the maltose-generating amylase and transglucosidase are adjusted so as to attain an enzyme unit ratio of 2:1 to 44:1 and allowed to act.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kensaku Shimada, Yuko Uehara, Yuko Yoshikawa, Isao Matsuda, Takako Yamada
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Publication number: 20100330234Abstract: Processes for the continuous production of fermented, trehalulose-containing beverages, in particular ready-to-drink beverages or beverage concentrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Jörg Kowalczyk, Stephan Hausmanns
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Patent number: 7858140Abstract: An improved wet milling process is provided that allows for separation of seed coat particles from the horny endosperm particles of seed. The process uses soaking and grinding to produce seed coat flake particles and horny endosperm particles that may be separated using movement of liquid slurry of the particles, providing hydraulic lift to separate the seed coat particles. Improvements in the process allow for omitting addition of sulfur compounds to the process. By-products of wet milling with improved properties are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Corn Value ProductsInventors: David Paustian, Daniel Hammes, Scott Feller
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Publication number: 20100323063Abstract: Processes for preparing isomaltooligosaccharide-hydrogenated (‘IMO-H’) syrup and IMO-H syrup made by the processes. In the process isomaltooligosaccharide (‘IMO’) is generally obtained by liquefying a raw material and then conducting one or more saccharification steps followed by additional processing steps, including filtration, decolorization, ion-exchange and evaporation. The IMO is then hydrogenated and the IMO-H is refined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2008Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: CORN PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: JiHang Lee, HeaSeok Jeong, HyukKon Kwon
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Patent number: 7851176Abstract: The substrate specificity of a lipolytic enzyme can be modified by making alterations to the amino acid sequence in a defined region of the lipolytic enzyme, so as to increase the level of a desired activity or to decrease the level of an undesired activity. Thus, the inventors have developed lipolytic enzyme variants with a modified amino acid sequence with a substrate specificity which can be tailored for specific uses.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Kirsten Bojsen, Allan Svendsen, Claus Crone Fuglsang, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Kim Borch, Jesper Vind, Andreas Petri, Sanne O. Schroder Glad, Gitte Budolfsen
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Publication number: 20100278970Abstract: A maltogenic ?-amylase from Trichoderma reesei (TrAA) and variants thereof in the presence of a glucoamylase are useful in the production of high-glucose syrups from liquefied starch, where the high-glucose syrups produced thereby contain at least about 97% glucose. In this process, TrAA advantageously suppresses the reversion of glucose to malto-oligosaccharides. Expression hosts and encoding nucleic acids useful for producing TrAA and its variants also are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Gang Duan, Kathy Qian, Martijn Scheffers, Jayarama K. Shetty, Pieter Van Solingen
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Publication number: 20100267658Abstract: The present invention relates to a trehalulose-containing composition, its preparation and use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/OchsenfurtInventors: Wolfgang WACH, Thomas ROSE, Michael KLINGEBERG, Siegfried PETERS, Tillmann DÖRR, Stephan THEIS, Jörg KOWALCZYK, Stephan HAUSMANNS
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Patent number: 7807206Abstract: Sweeteners on the basis of a simultaneously transglucosylated sweet glycoside mixture of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni are prepared. The transglycosylation was developed in the presence of starch under the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase. The remaining maltodextrins are transferred to the fructose-terminated oligosaccharides. The sweeteners are purified to not less than 98% content of sweet glycosides and derivatives. The preparations are almost non-caloric, non-cariogenic, non-bitter, non-lingering sweeteners, which may be advantageously applied in foods, beverages, cosmetics and milk products.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: PureCircle Sdn BhdInventors: Malsagov Magomet, Tugan Tomov, Timur Somann, Varuzhan H Abelyan
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Publication number: 20100204346Abstract: Problem: To develop a method for producing a novel sweetener containing glucose, fructose, and psicose, which is produced from glucose liquid sugar using an isomerase and an epimerase; use of the novel sweetener as a food or drink material; and a novel sweetener capable of preventing obesity caused by the intake thereof. Means of Resolution: An isomerase and an epimerase are allowed to act on glucose liquid sugar produced in a glucose liquid sugar production plant to thereby produce D-psicose, thereby providing a novel sweetener (product) that maintains the degree and quality of sweetness of a glucose-fructose mixed solution and never causes obesity, a method for producing the same, and use of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicants: MATSUTANI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD., NAT'L UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY, RARE SUGAR PRODUCTION TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABS., KABUSHIKI KAISHA HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJOInventors: Kazuhiro Okuma, Koji Yamada, Koji Tsukuda, Tetsuo Iida, Hiroshi Oga, Ken Izumori, Yoshio Tsujisaka, Tsuyoshi Shimonishi, Takako Yamada, Iwao Okamoto
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Patent number: 7759093Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having an amylase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods for making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the polypeptides of the invention can be used as amylases, for example, alpha amylases, to catalyze the hydrolysis of starch into sugars. In one aspect, the invention provides delayed release compositions comprising an desired ingredient coated by a latex polymer coating.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Verenium CorporationInventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Kevin Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska, Nelson Barton, Eileen O'Donoghue, Carl Miller
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Publication number: 20100173044Abstract: Maltobionate has an antioxidative effect in food and feed products. The antioxidant can be produced directly from starch or maltose already present in the food product, using enzymatic catalyzed processes. The antioxidant production can be performed on an isolated fraction of a food product from which it can be added back to the food production process or the final food product. Alternatively, the antioxidant can be produced as an integrated part of the food production process by adding the relevant enzymes to the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventor: Per Munk Nielsen
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Publication number: 20100166679Abstract: Sweeteners on the basis of a simultaneously transglucosylated sweet glycoside mixture of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni are prepared. The transglucosylation was developed in the presence of starch under the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase. The remaining maltodextrins are transformed to the fructose-terminated oligosaccharides by the addition of sucrose. The sweeteners are purified to not less than 98% content of sweet glycosides and derivatives. The preparations are almost non-caloric, non-cariogenic, non-bitter, non-lingering sweeteners, which may be advantageously applied in foods, beverages, cosmetics and milk products.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: PureCircle Sdn BhdInventors: Varuzhan ABELYAN, Avetik Markosyan, Lidia Abelyan
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Publication number: 20100086528Abstract: The invention relates to new isolated Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains which have been isolated from fresh honey having a water content above 18% by weight or from the honey producing tract of at least one bee. The bacterial strains have unique properties rendering them useful in many products such as in food and beverage products, feed products and medica products.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: April 8, 2010Inventors: Tobias Olofsson, Alejandra Vasquez
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Publication number: 20100047392Abstract: The invention relates to alpha amylases and to polynucleotides and polypeptides encoding the alpha amylases. In addition, methods of using the alpha amylases are also provided. The alpha amylases have increased activity and stability at acidic, neutral and alkaline pH and at increased temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Jay M. Short, Eric J. Mathur, Kevin A. Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska
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Publication number: 20100040728Abstract: The invention pertains to an in situ process for producing fructooligosaccharides in a food product by contacting the food product with a fructosyltransferase to enzymatically convert sucrose to fructooligosaccharides in the food product. The increase in fructooligosaccharides results in an increase in dietary fiber content of the food product.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2006Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Wayne E. Henderson, William King, Jayarama K. Shetty
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Publication number: 20090317513Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for harvesting amylose host material comprising enzymatically treating starch after the starch has been chemically modified to uniformly insert a steric hindrance substituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventor: Gary B. Nickel
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Publication number: 20090285933Abstract: The present invention concerns a new ?-galactosidase with transgalactosylating activity isolated from Bifidobacterium bifidum. The ?-galactosidase is capable of converting mellibiose to ?-galactobiose disaccharides which may be incorporated into numerous food products or animal feeds for improving gut health by promoting the growth of bifidobacteria in the gut, and repressing the growth of the pathogenic microflora.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Georgios Tzortzis, Athanasios K. Goulas, Theodoros Goulas
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Patent number: 7618664Abstract: The invention provides for a method for the preparation of a gluconic acid from glucose. It is an aspect of the invention to provide a method that comprises the use of enzymes. The method according to the invention can be applied with great benefit to the production of calcium gluconate suitable for use as a food fortifier by a process that is economical.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Cooperatieve Verkoop-en Productievereniging Van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten Avebe B.A.Inventors: Marcus Johannes Anthonius Wilhelmus Vorage, Diderik Reinder Kremer, Boelem Sloots, Johannes Bernardus Maria Meiberg
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Publication number: 20090280527Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent ?-amylase, which parent ?-amylase (i) has an amino acid sequence selected from the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 2, SEQ ID No. 3, and SEQ ID No.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Henrik Bisgard-Frantzen, Allan Svendsen, Torben Borchert
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Publication number: 20090258106Abstract: A corn wet-milling process comprises steeping corn kernels in an aqueous liquid, which produces softened corn; milling the softened corn in a first mill, which produces a first milled corn; separating germ from the first milled corn, thereby producing a germ-depleted first milled corn; milling the germ-depleted first milled corn in a second mill, producing a second milled corn; separating the second milled corn into a first starch/protein portion that comprises starch and protein and a first fiber portion that comprises fiber, starch, and protein; milling the first fiber portion in a third mill, which produces a milled fiber material that comprises fiber, starch, and protein; separating at least some of the starch and protein in the milled fiber material from the fiber therein, producing a second fiber portion that comprises fiber and starch and a second starch/protein portion that comprises starch and protein; and contacting the second fiber portion with at least one enzyme to convert at least some of the stType: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2006Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Robert Jansen, David Sass, Gordon Walker, Eric Lutz
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Publication number: 20090258109Abstract: A novel process of hard coating, for creating a hard, crunchy coating on the surface of a product in less than two hours, includes a plurality of cycles each including: applying a coating syrup containing at least one polyol obtained by hydrogenation of disaccharides, and the coating syrup having 60%-90% solids content by weight and preferably 70%-85% by weight; drying by using air with a temperature of 40° C.-70° C., for a time of at least 1 minute and of not more than 5 minutes; the number of cycles being such that a degree of enlargement of greater than 25%, preferentially greater than 30% and more preferentially greater than 32% is obtained. One variant of the process according to the invention consists in adding, after applying the syrup, an amount of polyol powder of very high purity. The invention is also directed towards the coated products obtained by using the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: ROQUETTE FRERESInventors: Dominique ORTIZ DE ZARATE, Guillaume RIBADEAU-DUMAS
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Publication number: 20090232937Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a bulk starter medium for incorporating starch, preferably potato starch, into the cheese curd matrix. A process is provided for growing a starter culture in a liquid medium, wherein the liquid medium comprises starch. Cheese having a firmer texture can be obtained by the process according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2006Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Gary K Burningham, Brian J. Orme, Randall Thunell
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Publication number: 20090232938Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of making xanthan gum by inoculating sugarcane fluid with a bacterium that can synthesize xanthan gum, such as a bacterium of the genus Xanthomonas.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Michelle A. Hamilton Hamilton, Garth S. Dawkins, Winston A. Mellowes
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Publication number: 20090226569Abstract: Described are variants of alpha (?)-amylases having altered starch hydrolysis profiles. The variants have improved thermostability and increased specific activity, resulting in reduced peak viscosity and altered final viscosity during starch liquefaction. The amylase variants are useful, e.g., in liquefaction and other starch degradation processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: DANISCO US INC., GENENCOR DIVISIONInventors: Sandra W. Ramer, Michael J. Pepsin, Andrew Shaw
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Publication number: 20090214706Abstract: We describe a PS4 variant polypeptide derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the PS4 variant polypeptide comprises an amino acid mutation at one or more positions selected from the group consisting of: 121, 161, 223, 146, 157, 158, 198, 229, 303, 306, 309, 316, 353, 26, 70, 145, 188, 272, 339, with reference to the position numbering of a Pseudomonas saccharophilia exoamylase sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2005Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Casper Tune Berg, Patrick M.F. Derkx, Carol Fioresi, Gijsbert Gerritse, Anja Hemmingen Kellet-Smith, Karsten Matthias Kragh, Wei Liu, Andrew Shaw, Bo Spange Sørensen, Charlotte Refdahl Thoudahl
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Publication number: 20090214707Abstract: This invention relates generally to the field of starch syrup production, specifically to a processing method and a device for the extrusion of raw materials with enzymes added for starch syrup, and a saccharogenic method of the extruded raw materials. This invention discloses the kind and amount of enzymes added, the appropriate parameters of the processing method and the device for the extrusion of raw materials with enzymes added for starch syrup, and the appropriate saccharogenic method of the extruded raw materials for starch syrup. The processing method and the device of this invention are such that the jet liquefaction process as used in the traditional double enzyme method for starch syrup production can be spared, and starch syrup with the same DE value can be obtained in a saccharification time which can be shorten 2-4 times the traditional saccharification time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Shandong University of TechnologyInventor: Shen Dechao
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Publication number: 20090202675Abstract: We describe a PS4 variant polypeptide derivable from a parent polypeptide having non-maltogenic exoamylase activity, in which the PS4 variant polypeptide comprises an amino acid substitution at position 307 to lysine (K) or arginine (R), with reference to the position numbering of a Pseudomonas saccharophilia exoamylase sequence shown as SEQ ID NO: 1. Preferably, the PS4 variant polypeptide further comprises an amino acid substitution at position 70, preferably G70D. The amino acid at positions 272 and 303 of the sequence of the are preferably histidine (H) and glycine (G).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Patrick Maria Franciscus Derkx, Anja Kellet-Smith Hemmingen, Rie Mejldal, Bo Spange Sorensen, Karsten Matthias Kragh
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Patent number: 7560126Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having an amylase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods for making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the polypeptides of the invention can be used as amylases, for example, alpha amylases, to catalyze the hydrolysis of starch into sugars.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Verenium CorporationInventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Kevin A. Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska, Nelson R. Barton, Eileen O'Donoghue, Eric J. Mathur, Jay M. Short
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Publication number: 20090155414Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods for increasing the rate of production in an ethanol fermentation by increased carbohydrate feeding and diversion of backset from recycling as process water in the fermentation. Novel products derived from the diverted backset are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Charles A. Abbas, James Joseph Foster, Thomas V. Gottemoller
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Publication number: 20090155413Abstract: The present invention relates to a variant xylanase polypeptide, or fragment thereof having xylanase activity, comprising one or more amino acid modifications such that the polypeptide or fragment thereof has an altered sensitivity to a xylanase inhibitor as compared with parent enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Ole Sibbesen, Jens Frisbaek Sorensen
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Publication number: 20090149633Abstract: An artificial diet for lepidopteran insects of the present invention, including: a protein; and a carbohydrate, wherein a content of a stable isotope is equal to or greater than 50 atom %. A method for producing an artificial diet for lepidopteran insects, including: a defatting treatment step of subjecting a microorganism to a defatting treatment; a hydrothermal solution extraction treatment step of subjecting the microorganism to an extraction treatment using a hydrothermal solution; and a mixing step of mixing a carbohydrate and a protein originated from the microorganism that is subjected to the defatting treatment step and the hydrothermal solution extraction treatment step.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Masatoshi Nakamura, Jun Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20090123603Abstract: Provided herein are methods of making a substantially clear syrup comprising reacting one or more substrates at a concentration of at least 40% w/w with at least one alternan sucrase enzyme at a temperature of greater than 45° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Ting L. Carlson, Anton Woo, Guo-hua Zheng
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Publication number: 20090117080Abstract: The present invention concerns a new ?-galactosidase with transgalactosylating activity isolated from Bifidobacterium bifidum. The ?-galactosidase is capable of converting lactose to a mixture of galactooligosaccharides which are ?-linked and unexpectedly produces the ?-linked disaccharide galactobiose. The mixture may be incorporated into numerous food products or animal feeds for improving gut health by promoting the growth of bifidobacteria in the gut, and repressing the growth of the pathogenic microflora.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Georgios Tzortzis, Athanasios K. Goulas, Theodoros Goulas
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Publication number: 20090110772Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a method of solubilizing melaninic, ligninic, chitinic, and/or cellulosic material. The method includes providing melaninic, ligninic, chitinic, and/or cellulosic material and providing an oxoacid ester of phosphorus or a mixture of an oxoacid of phosphorus and an alcohol. A blend of the melaninic, ligninic, chitinic, and/or cellulosic material, the oxoacid ester of phosphorus or the mixture of the oxoacid of phosphorus and alcohol is formed. The blend is then treated under conditions effective to solubilize the melaninic, ligninic, chitinic, and/or cellulosic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: John G. VERKADE, Reed E. OSHEL
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Publication number: 20090041895Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing soy sauce using an amylolytic enzyme comprising a Carbohydrate Binding Module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Per Munk Nielsen, Anders Viksoe Nielsen
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Publication number: 20090011082Abstract: A process for producing a starch comprises treating a feed starch that comprises amylopectin with glucanotransferase to produce a chain-extended starch, and treating the chain-extended starch with a debranching enzyme to produce a starch product that comprises amylose fragments. In certain embodiments, the process further comprises, crystallizing at least part of the starch product, heating the starch product in the presence of moisture, treating the starch product with alpha-amylase, and washing the starch product to remove at least some non-crystallized starch, wherein the degree of polymerization of the starch product is increased by increasing the amylose content of the feed starch or is decreased by decreasing the amylose content of the feed starch. The product of this process can have a relatively high total dietary fiber content, a relatively high heat resistance, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Donald W. Harris, Xian-Zhong Han, Annette Evans
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Patent number: 7396670Abstract: The formation of acrylamide during heat treatment in the production of a food product is reduced by treating the raw material with an enzyme before the heat treatment. The enzyme is capable of reacting on asparagine or glutamine (optionally substituted) as a substrate or is a laccase or a peroxidase.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Gitte Budolfsen, Morten Tovborg Jensen, Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Mary Ann Stringer
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Patent number: 7329420Abstract: A therapeutic mixture has essentially equal parts of eucalyptus globulus oil and pinus sylvestris oil and thymus vulgaris oil.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Inventor: Maria Lukacs
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Patent number: 6936290Abstract: A method for producing a shelf stable, high viscosity maple syrup product is provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided is a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency similar to that of clear honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping. Also provided is a shelf stable maple butter product, with the consistency of churned honey, which may be used as a spread, sweetener, topping, or snack. Both the spreadable maple syrup product with the consistency of clear honey and the spreadable maple butter with the consistency of churned honey are also suitable for use in pure maple-based products or other foods.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Shady Maple Farm Ltd.Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
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Patent number: 6756067Abstract: Methods for producing (1) a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency of clear honey and (2) a shelf stable, thick, pourable maple syrup product with a viscosity of common table syrup are provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided are (1) a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency of clear honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping and (2) a shelf stable, thick, pourable maple syrup product with a viscosity of common table syrup. These product are also suitable for use in pure maple-based products and other food products.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Shady Maple Farm Ltd.Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
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Patent number: 6737090Abstract: The invention concerns a carbon-containing additive for food fermenting agents characterized in that it comprises branched maltodextrins having between 15 and 35% of 1→6 glucosidic bonds, a reducing sugars content less than 20%, a polymolecularity index less than 5 and a number average molecular mass Mn equal to at most 4,500 g/mole. It also concerns fermented food compositions containing the said additive as well as the process for preparing these fermented food compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Roquette FreresInventors: Elsa Ostermann, Bernard Pora, Bernard Boursier, Sophie Defretin
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Publication number: 20030129278Abstract: The invention relates to an oligosaccharide mixture based on oligosaccharides produced from one or several animal milks and which are composed of two or more monosaccharide units. Said oligosaccharide mixture is characterized in that it comprises at least two oligosaccharide fractions which are each composed of at least two different oligosaccharides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Inventors: Bernd Stahl, Gunther Bohm, Berndt Finke, Gilda Georgi, Jurgen Jelinek, Joachim J. Schmitt
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Publication number: 20030003191Abstract: Methods for producing (1) a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency of clear honey and (2) a shelf stable, thick, pourable maple syrup product with a viscosity of common table syrup are provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided are (1) a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency of clear honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping and (2) a shelf stable, thick, pourable maple syrup product with a viscosity of common table syrup. These product are also suitable for use in pure maple-based products and other food products.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Applicant: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
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Publication number: 20020197351Abstract: A method for producing a shelf stable, high viscosity maple syrup product is provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided is a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency similar to that of clear honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping. Also provided is a shelf stable maple butter product, with the consistency of churned honey, which may be used as a spread, sweetener, topping, or snack. Both the spreadable maple syrup product with the consistency of clear honey and the spreadable maple butter with the consistency of churned honey are also suitable for use in pure maple-based products or other foods.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Applicant: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
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Patent number: 6488970Abstract: An animal food product useful as food supplement for pets such as dogs or cats, comprising a carrier and at least one food additive selected from vitamins, provitamins, minerals and trace elements, whereby the carrier comprises a cultured milk product.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: DOGURT Nauheltenvertrieb GmbHInventor: Roland Hora
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Publication number: 20020176909Abstract: A method for producing a shelf stable, spreadable high viscosity maple syrup product is provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided is a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency similar to that of honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping. It is also suitable for use in pure maple-based products.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventor: Stephan Jampen
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Patent number: 6485763Abstract: A method for producing a shelf stable, spreadable high viscosity maple syrup product is provided, which comprises adding a sucrose-cleaving enzyme to maple syrup and incubating the resulting solution. Also provided is a shelf stable, spreadable maple syrup product with a consistency similar to that of honey, which may be used as a spread, or sweetener or a topping. It is also suitable for use in pure maple-based products.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.Inventor: Stephan Jampen