Of Isolated Carbohydrate Patents (Class 426/48)
  • Publication number: 20110045136
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Tine Hoff, Carsten Sjoeholm, Barrie Edmund Norman
  • Publication number: 20110045137
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Kenshi Yoshida, Ikuo Sawatani, Hiroto Chaen, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
  • Publication number: 20110033575
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Karsten Matthias Kragh, Anja Hemmingsen Kellet-Smith, Andrew Shaw, Regina Chin
  • Publication number: 20110020496
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensaku Shimada, Yuko Uehara, Yuko Yoshikawa, Isao Matsuda, Takako Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100330234
    Abstract: Processes for the continuous production of fermented, trehalulose-containing beverages, in particular ready-to-drink beverages or beverage concentrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Jörg Kowalczyk, Stephan Hausmanns
  • Patent number: 7858140
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Corn Value Products
    Inventors: David Paustian, Daniel Hammes, Scott Feller
  • Publication number: 20100323063
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: CORN PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: JiHang Lee, HeaSeok Jeong, HyukKon Kwon
  • Patent number: 7851176
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirsten Bojsen, Allan Svendsen, Claus Crone Fuglsang, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Kim Borch, Jesper Vind, Andreas Petri, Sanne O. Schroder Glad, Gitte Budolfsen
  • Publication number: 20100278970
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Gang Duan, Kathy Qian, Martijn Scheffers, Jayarama K. Shetty, Pieter Van Solingen
  • Publication number: 20100267658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a trehalulose-containing composition, its preparation and use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Wolfgang WACH, Thomas ROSE, Michael KLINGEBERG, Siegfried PETERS, Tillmann DÖRR, Stephan THEIS, Jörg KOWALCZYK, Stephan HAUSMANNS
  • Patent number: 7807206
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: PureCircle Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Malsagov Magomet, Tugan Tomov, Timur Somann, Varuzhan H Abelyan
  • Publication number: 20100204346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicants: MATSUTANI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD., NAT'L UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY, RARE SUGAR PRODUCTION TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABS., KABUSHIKI KAISHA HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJO
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Okuma, Koji Yamada, Koji Tsukuda, Tetsuo Iida, Hiroshi Oga, Ken Izumori, Yoshio Tsujisaka, Tsuyoshi Shimonishi, Takako Yamada, Iwao Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7759093
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Verenium Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Kevin Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska, Nelson Barton, Eileen O'Donoghue, Carl Miller
  • Publication number: 20100173044
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Per Munk Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20100166679
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: PureCircle Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Varuzhan ABELYAN, Avetik Markosyan, Lidia Abelyan
  • Publication number: 20100086528
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Tobias Olofsson, Alejandra Vasquez
  • Publication number: 20100047392
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Verenium Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Jay M. Short, Eric J. Mathur, Kevin A. Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska
  • Publication number: 20100040728
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Wayne E. Henderson, William King, Jayarama K. Shetty
  • Publication number: 20090317513
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Gary B. Nickel
  • Publication number: 20090285933
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Georgios Tzortzis, Athanasios K. Goulas, Theodoros Goulas
  • Patent number: 7618664
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20090280527
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Bisgard-Frantzen, Allan Svendsen, Torben Borchert
  • Publication number: 20090258106
    Abstract: 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 st
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Robert Jansen, David Sass, Gordon Walker, Eric Lutz
  • Publication number: 20090258109
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: ROQUETTE FRERES
    Inventors: Dominique ORTIZ DE ZARATE, Guillaume RIBADEAU-DUMAS
  • Publication number: 20090232937
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Gary K Burningham, Brian J. Orme, Randall Thunell
  • Publication number: 20090232938
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Michelle A. Hamilton Hamilton, Garth S. Dawkins, Winston A. Mellowes
  • Publication number: 20090226569
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: DANISCO US INC., GENENCOR DIVISION
    Inventors: Sandra W. Ramer, Michael J. Pepsin, Andrew Shaw
  • Publication number: 20090214706
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20090214707
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Shandong University of Technology
    Inventor: Shen Dechao
  • Publication number: 20090202675
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Patrick Maria Franciscus Derkx, Anja Kellet-Smith Hemmingen, Rie Mejldal, Bo Spange Sorensen, Karsten Matthias Kragh
  • Patent number: 7560126
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Verenium Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20090155414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Charles A. Abbas, James Joseph Foster, Thomas V. Gottemoller
  • Publication number: 20090155413
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Ole Sibbesen, Jens Frisbaek Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20090149633
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Masatoshi Nakamura, Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20090123603
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Ting L. Carlson, Anton Woo, Guo-hua Zheng
  • Publication number: 20090117080
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Georgios Tzortzis, Athanasios K. Goulas, Theodoros Goulas
  • Publication number: 20090110772
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: John G. VERKADE, Reed E. OSHEL
  • Publication number: 20090041895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing soy sauce using an amylolytic enzyme comprising a Carbohydrate Binding Module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Per Munk Nielsen, Anders Viksoe Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20090011082
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Donald W. Harris, Xian-Zhong Han, Annette Evans
  • Patent number: 7396670
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Gitte Budolfsen, Morten Tovborg Jensen, Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Mary Ann Stringer
  • Patent number: 7329420
    Abstract: A therapeutic mixture has essentially equal parts of eucalyptus globulus oil and pinus sylvestris oil and thymus vulgaris oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Inventor: Maria Lukacs
  • Patent number: 6936290
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Shady Maple Farm Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
  • Patent number: 6756067
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Shady Maple Farm Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
  • Patent number: 6737090
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Roquette Freres
    Inventors: Elsa Ostermann, Bernard Pora, Bernard Boursier, Sophie Defretin
  • Publication number: 20030129278
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Bernd Stahl, Gunther Bohm, Berndt Finke, Gilda Georgi, Jurgen Jelinek, Joachim J. Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20030003191
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
  • Publication number: 20020197351
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Swain, Stephan Jampen
  • Patent number: 6488970
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: DOGURT Nauheltenvertrieb GmbH
    Inventor: Roland Hora
  • Publication number: 20020176909
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: Stephan Jampen
  • Patent number: 6485763
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: 2002872 Ontario Limited Inc.
    Inventor: Stephan Jampen