Abstract: An additive delivery laminate is suitable for packaging a food product which is cooked in the package, with an additive transferring from the laminate to the food product. The additive delivery laminate has a substrate and an additive delivery layer. The additive delivery layer contains styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene copolymer and additive granules containing a colorant, flavorant, and/or odorant. The styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene copolymer has a styrene to ethylene/butylene weight ratio of from 5:95 to 50:50 and a Brookfield Viscosity of from 500 to 100,000 centipoise measured as a 25 weight percent solution in toluene at 77° F.

Abstract: A process for designing, and flavoring a shelf stable baked meal, cereal meal, freeze dried meal, chocolate meal, caramel meal, popsicle meal, and ice cream antithesis meal by taking a commercial brand name product and improving it by adding foodstuff nutrients to make it an American meal. When combined they meet the predetermined requirements of the National School Lunch program, the United States Department and the Dash Eating plan food intake requirements as defined in present invention. The said meals takes an existing commercial product, an example is candy bar and adds the necessary foodstuff components to the candy bar such that when combined the final product meets the food intake requirements of said American meal. The method of producing shelf stable various meals comprise using existing known methods and technologies of preparing foodstuff and keeping it fresh and ready to eat until opened.

Abstract: A grain-based food product is provided which is formed from a premix compacted granules having a narrow particle size distribution. The premix flows easily, does not clump, and reduces dust.

Abstract: A complex coacervate delivery system is provided which encapsulates lipophilic nutrients such as, for example, fish oils high in omega-3 fatty acids. The complex coacervate delivery system protects the lipophilic nutrient from degradation, e.g., oxidation and hydrolysis, and also reduces or eliminates the unpleasant taste and odor of the lipophilic nutrient. The complex coacervate delivery system upon ingestion is operative to substantially release the lipophilic nutrient in the lower gastrointestinal tract in a pH-controlled manner. The complex coacervate delivery system may be included in a food or beverage product having a pH value within the range of about 1.5 to about 5.0.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are dry film coating compositions comprising of tribasic calcium phosphate as one of the essential ingredient along with other commonly used polymers, plasticizers, excipients like suspending agents, pigments, lubricants, glidents, opacifiers, flavours, sweetener etc. for use in coating of pharmaceutical tablets, nutritional supplements, food products, confectionery, agricultural seeds and the like The invention further discloses method for coating a substrate using the invented coating composition.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for determining a characteristic describing the intestinal microbiota for an animal and/or a human being, in which method an animal and/or a human being is fed with a fodder/food; the number of two or more microorganisms in the intestine is determined; and the characteristic describing the intestinal microbiota is calculated as a ratio of the number of microorganisms. The invention also concerns methods for monitoring, development and promoting the intestinal microbiota, the well-being of an animal and/or a human-being, the intestinal health, the nutrition of an animal and/or a human being, the productivity and/or fodder utilization ratio of an animal, as well as the use of the characteristic and the use of the method for developing a fodder, a nutriment, a fodder and nutritional additive, a preparation and a pharmaceutical supporting the well-being, and a nutritional program.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to fish dietary compositions and methods of using to same in order to effect destratification of formulated fish food that is fed to a fish.

Abstract: Confectionery products comprising a tooth-friendly sweetener, bioactive glass particles and at least one product additive, as well as processes for obtaining the products and various applications thereof.

Abstract: Process for making a solid compound by precipitation, using a high intensity mixing reactor and comprising the steps of (A) introducing a first fluid material containing a first reactant and a second fluid material containing a second reactant into said reactor, in order to obtain a mixed fluid, in order to cause the first reactant to react with the second reactant to form a solid compound by precipitation in the mixed fluid; (B) withdrawing the mixed fluid containing the precipitated solid obtained in step (A) from the reactor, and; (C) optionally separating the precipitated solid compound from at least one fraction of the mixed fluid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to newly identified genes that encode proteins that are involved in the (bio)synthesis of citric acid. The invention also features polynucleotides comprising the full-length polynucleotide sequences of the novel genes and fragments thereof, the novel polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides and fragments thereof, as well as their functional equivalents. The present invention also relates to the use of said polynucleotides and polypeptides as biotechnological tools in the production of citric acid from microorganisms, whereby a modification of said polynucleotides and/or encoded polypeptides has a direct or indirect impact on yield, production, and/or efficiency of production of the fermentation product in said microorganism. Also included are methods/processes of using the polynucleotides and modified polynucleotide sequences to transform host microorganisms. The invention also relates to genetically engineered microorganisms and their use for production of citric acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for improving stool quality of a puppy by adjusting the balance of metabolizable cations to metabolizable anions consumed by the puppy.

Abstract: Compositions of pinolenic acid or derivatives thereof. Method of using TOFA for obtaining pinolenic acid or derivatives thereof. Products, including foods, beverages, personal care, beauty, pharaceutical or other products comprising TOFA derived pinolenic acid or derivatives thereof.

Abstract: A process for the extrusion of a composition from an extruder, which composition is suitable for use in a food product, is disclosed. The process provides a composition which is comprised of a hydrophilicized carrier and surface-active compound which is extruded. The process describes adding the surface-active compound after the carrier is hydrophilicized.

Abstract: The present invention retains the original shape, color, taste, flavor and texture, suppresses liquating out nutritional contents, can easily adjust the hardness of a food, can efficiently manufacture a processed food which uses a wide variety of food materials, can preserve by suppressing microbial deterioration due to its hygienic manufacture, and can easily and manufacture a processed food in a short period of time, wherein the food is capable of supplying nutritious substance according to need. The method of manufacturing a food of the present invention including bringing either one or both of a thickener in a non-solvated state and microorganism which generates a viscous material into contact with the surface of a food material, and performing a pressure treatment, such that the food retains the shape of the food material and uniformly includes either one or both of a thickener in a non-solvated state and microorganism which generates a viscous material inside.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of nutrition. In particular the present invention relates to infant nutrition in the post natal period and in early life, more particular during the age period of 6-36 months or during a part thereof. One embodiment of the present invention is a kit of diet compositions for children during the age period of 6-36 months or during a part thereof, wherein the macronutrient content of the compositions is gradually changing in the form of a straight line from a composition that comprises about 40-50% energy from fat and about 40-49% energy from carbohydrates for children at the age of 6 months to a composition that comprises about 30-35% energy from fat and about 50-55% energy from carbohydrates for children at the age of 36 months, and its use to prevent obesity later in life.

Abstract: An illustrative method of making a total mixed ration (TMR) equine biscuit including a fibrous material and one or more nutritional supplements may include suspending the one or more nutritional supplements with the fibrous material and impregnating the one or more nutritional supplements into the fibrous material. The biscuit may have a starch content of less than 6 percent by weight. The biscuit may have a sugar content of less than 15 percent by weight.

Abstract: Use of polyvinyllactam-polyalkylene oxide block copolymers as solubilizers for sub-stances which are sparingly soluble in water.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bitter-taste receptors and their role in bitter taste transduction. The invention also relates to assays for screening molecules that modulate, e.g. suppress or block, bitter taste transduction, or enhance bitter taste response.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing granules and to a granule obtained by the process. In the process, a clay material is used which has a specific surface area of more than 150 m2/g, a pore volume of more than 0.45 ml/g and a cation exchange capacity of more than 15 meq/100 g.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of phosphatidylserine of formula wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a saturated, mono-unsaturated or polyunsaturated acyl C10-C30, X?OH or OM where M=alkaline or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium (including the inner salt) including the transphosphatidylation reaction between phosphatidylcholine of the general formula wherein R1 and R2 and X have the above specified meanings, R3?CH2—CH2—NH2 o CH2—CH2—N+(CH3)3 and Serine in D, L or racemic form catalysed by the phospholipase D enzyme (PLD), characterised in that said reaction is carried out in a hydroalcoholic medium containing an aliphatic alcohol and in the presence of bivalent metal oxide.

Abstract: Methods for using or incorporating glycerin in animal feeds are disclosed. Animal feeds including the glycerin are also disclosed, as well as methods of feeding such animal feeds to animals.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 represent, independently, linear or branched C1-4 alkyl, n=0 to 4 and m=0 to 3. Mixtures of these compounds, methods for their preparation, their use as perfume materials for application to a variety of substrates and their use in flavouring and in articles of manufacture is also provided.

Abstract: A method for producing a liquid preparation having a solid body content and the resulting liquid preparation. According to the method, the addition of at least a portion of the solid bodies takes place only (a) in the last stage of the method preceding the pouring of the liquid preparation into a packing unit or (b) during the pouring into a packing unit.

Abstract: A method of determining susceptibility to periodontitis in a Shih Tzu dog, Yorkshire Terrier dog or a dog of a breed that is genetically related to the Shih Tzu or Yorkshire Terrier breed, comprises: a) typing the nucleotide present in the genome of the dog at or at a position equivalent to each of the following: position 201 of SEQ ID NO: 2 (SNP_02), or a position that is in linkage disequilibrium with this position,—position 201 of SEQ ID NO: 4 (SNP_04), or a position that is in linkage disequilibrium with this position, and position 201 of SEQ ID NO: 9 (SNPJ39), or a position that is in linkage disequilibrium with this position, and b) thereby determining whether the dog is susceptible to periodontitis.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a readily water-dispersible particulate composition comprising by weight of dry matter at least 10% of xanthan gum and not more than 60% of starch, said composition being characterised in that the xanthan gum present in the composition can be dispersed completely within 2 minutes in distilled water of 25° C. at a concentration of 0.7% based on the dry weight of xanthan. The particulate xanthan gum compositions of the present invention exhibit unique viscosity enhancing properties that are dependent on the electrolyte levels of the aqueous environment in which they are applied. The favourable properties of the xanthan compositions according to the invention can be realised without resorting to chemical modification of the xanthan gum. The xanthan compositions according to the present invention can be applied advantageously in e.g. food products and oil drilling fluids.

Abstract: Disclosed are apple plants or apple plant components that include an isolated polynucleotide free from a selectable marker polynucleotide. Methods of producing such plants are also disclosed.

Abstract: A snack chip comprising from about 15% to about 60% of vegetable material; from about 40% to about 65% of starch material made from materials selected from the group consisting of tapioca, rice and mixtures thereof; from about 0.1% to about 3.0% water; and from about 1% to about 20% of optional ingredients. At least about 40% of the starch material is pre-gelatinized. The snack chip can be made by combining the vegetable material and dry ingredients with water to form a dough which is then sheeted, dried without the use of a heated extruder to form a half product, which is cooked to form the snack chip.

Abstract: The present invention provides shortenings having little to no trans-fatty acids and low saturates. Such shortenings can be used to make various food products.

Abstract: The present invention concerns flavoring granulates that can be manufactured by means of a fluidized-bed process, wherein the flavoring granulates have a substantially spherical geometry with solid spherical bodies comprising or consisting of the following components, in each case relating to the flavoring granulate obtained: aa) 60% to 90% by weight of a dry fruit substance and bb) a carrier matrix comprising or consisting of ) 10% to 40% by weight of a magnesium salt of one or more solid, edible acids or ii) a mixture of a. 5% to 20% by weight of magnesium hydroxide and b. 5% to 20% by weight of one or more solid, edible acids, uses of the flavoring granulates according to the present invention as well as a fluidized-bed process.

Abstract: A method of treating food waste by fermenting a raw material comprising the food waste by means of a koji mold to obtain a liquid substance. The koji mold is a koji mold belonging to genus Aspergillus capable of producing citric acid. The liquid substance comprises a citric add produced by the koji mold and has a pH of 5.5 or less. The method enables food waste to be used for feed without the problems usually associated with pig farming techniques using garbage. Additionally, the method allows food wastes to be preserved for a long time without putrefaction. Also offered is a feed composition comprising a treated food waste.

Abstract: The present invention relates to codon-optimized xylanase coding sequences and the expression of xylanases in microbes and yeast. The invention further relates to using multiple copies of the xylanase expression construct for high levels of protein expression. The invention also relates to the use of xylanases as feed or food additives. The invention also relates to methods of expression of enzymes to increase thermotolerance by expressing them in organisms that glycosylate proteins compared to expression that the same enzyme without the glycosylation. Further, the invention relates to methods of preparing feed, enzyme feed additives, and methods of reducing the feed conversion ration or increasing weight gain of animals.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing and using a solid sodium diformate having a high formic acid content, to the use thereof in animal foods in the form of an acidifier, preservatives, ensilage auxiliary agents, fertilizers, and a growth and productivity-stimulating agent and the inventive animal food additives containing sodium diformate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a a composition comprising a sensitive ingredient; and where the sensitive ingredient has a chemical stability index of at least about 1.05, a Bioavailability Index of at least about 1.05 and a Horgan Indeces of less than about 0.8.

Abstract: The present invention relates to protein engineering, and concerns especially family G/11 xylanases, and genes encoding said enzymes. In specific, the invention concerns Trichoderma reesei XYNII gene, which codes for endo-1,4-?-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8). The invention describes how site-directed mutagenesis can be used to improve the properties of an enzyme to match the industrial conditions where it is used. Protein engineering can be used to improve thermoactivity and thermostability of xylanases, as well as to broaden their pH range.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel healthy and functional food having an obesity-suppressing activity. The healthy and functional food according to the present invention is manufactured by using an extract or a raw juice of purple-colored potato as a main/minor ingredient, or by adding the extract or a raw juice of purple-colored potato to various favorite foods. The extract of purple-colored potato according to the present invention has an obesity-suppressing activity by preventing an adipose cell from being differentiated and reducing leptin protein aiding to differentiate into adipose cells, and has an ability to reduce free fatty acid which is a hyperlipidemia-inducing factor and cholesterol in blood. Therefore, the healthy and functional food containing the extract of purple-colored potato according to the present invention can be useful to treat obesity patients including a wide age group of teenagers and adults and old persons.

Abstract: The invention relates to shaped instant pieces which are suitable for producing an instant food or instant drug, in particular an instant drink, which is produced from an instant composition, and to processes for producing the shaped instant pieces of an instant composition.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a nutritionally complete and preferably balanced, shelf stable pet food product, a method of feeding the pet food product to an animal and a process of manufacturing that pet food product. The method of feeding an animal includes the step of feeding a preferred pet food product to the animal, wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally complete meal and is configured such that the animal can hold the product with its appendages while eating the product.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for making and using thermotolerant phytases, e.g., a method of using a thermotolerant phytase in feed and food processing and feed or food products comprising a thermotolerant phytase.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sol of spinous inorganic oxide particles not containing coarse particles, in which particles having extremely homogeneous particles are dispersed in a solvent. An acidic silicic acid is added to a dispersion liquid of core particles to grow core particles, and then again the acidic silicic acid is added at the addition rate 1.2 to 1.8 higher than that in the previous step to prepare a sol of spinous inorganic oxide particles. Then the sol is subjected to centrifugation to remove coarse particles having the diameter of 800 nm or more, thus spinous inorganic oxide particles having peculiar form such as a spinous one being obtained.

Abstract: Oxygen sensitive oils or oils containing oil soluble oxygen sensitive substances are encapsulated in proteins which have been reacted with carbohydrates that contain reducing sugar groups. An aqueous mixture of a protein preferably casein and a carbohydrate preferably a sugar is heated within the range of 60 to 160° C. so that Maillard reaction products are formed in the aqueous mixture. The oil phase, up to 50% by weight is then emulsified with the aqueous phase to form micro encapsulated oil particles. The formation of MRP may also be done after emulsification prior to drying. The emulsions can be used as food ingredients or dried to form powders.

Abstract: A process for isolating lactoferrin from milk or a casein-containing component or product containing lactoferrin, comprising subjecting a precipitate of casein obtained from the milk of the casein-containing component or product, with which precipitate at least part of the milk lactoferrin is associated, to a treatment with an extraction medium whereby at least part of the lactoferrin associated with the precipitate of casein is released to the medium. When lactoferrin has been released, the medium may be subjected to different types of purification operation steps. The purification operations are selected in accordance with the purity requirements of the intended specific application. Furthermore, lactoferrin and/or a composition comprising lactoferrin according to the above-mentioned process is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods of reducing oxidation in foods by selectively adding one or more antioxidants to the polar lipid fraction of a food product.

Abstract: Provides is a food having an increased effect of inhibiting accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls in a living body contains a carbonaceous material that has a pore structure capable of exhibiting adsorbability and to which calcium is bound. The carbonaceous material used herein usually has an average pore diameter of 0.70 to 0.90 nm and a specific surface area of 950 to 1,600 m2/g. The food can adsorb dioxins inclusive of polychlorinated biphenyls that are contained in the food or accumulated in the living body by the carbonaceous material. The carbonaceous material contained in the food, after being taken in, can be excreted from the living body together with the excrement.

Abstract: The packaging system includes a first food product sealed within an inner wrapper, a second food product positioned within a tray and spacing the first food product from the tray, and an outer wrapper sealing the first food product, sealed within the inner wrapper, the second food product and the tray therein. A shield is disposed on the tray and is in contact with more than one surface of the second food product. Prior to microwave heating, the inner and outer wrapper are removed.

Abstract: Phytic acid is added to wine to chelate polyvalent iron cations. A calcium salt is added to co-precipitate the complex that subsequently is removed by filtration. This method effectively, inexpensively and safely removes excessive levels of iron in wine, sparkling wine, and other beverages without changing the pH, color or taste.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method for determining the least cost feed formulation for a ruminant animal, utilizing Rumen Active Feed Additives. Also described is a least cost feed formulation made through the use of the method, and use of the method to prepare a least cost feed formulation. Feed formulated for least cost and comprising various combinations of Rumen Active Feed Additives are also described.

Abstract: Packaged food articles comprise at least one shaped food product disposed within sealed moisture resistant packaging. The shaped food products include an axially aligned center piece or rod as a core portion and at least one string wrapped around the periphery of the core piece. The shaped food piece is fabricated from a pliable or plastic food composition such as a sweetened intermediate moisture fruit or confection such as licorice. The center piece can be provided with a multiplicity of fins extending longitudinally about the exterior periphery of the core piece. The coiled string is peelably removable from the core piece. The combination of core piece and coiled string provide a child oriented wholesome food of enhanced play value. Methods for preparing the shaped food product are described.

Abstract: Isolated or purified nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides having cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor-like activity; vectors; host cells; polypeptides having CDK inhibitor-like activity; nucleic acid constructs for suppression of CDK inhibitor-like activity; methods of suppressing and up-regulating the expression of one or more CDK inhibitor-like genes in a maize cell, tissue, organ, or plant; a maize cell, tissue, organ, or plant in which the expression of a CDK inhibitor-like gene has been suppressed or up-regulated in accordance with such methods; and a seed (and the oil and meal thereof) obtained from a plant in which the expression of one or more CDK inhibitor-like genes has been suppressed or up-regulated.

Abstract: Hydrothermal processes are provided for preparing hybrid proteins containing altered SS/SH bonds, thereby yielding hybrid proteins having enhanced functional and/or nutritional properties. The processes involve initial homogenization of a protein-containing slurry containing at least two proteins, followed by high pressure steam treatment in a jet cooker (16) or similar device in order to heat shock and thereby alter the conformation of some of the proteins, followed by a holding period to allow the proteins to reform, whereupon the proteins are cooled. Plant and animal proteins may be processed, and the starting slurry can be pH-modified and/or supplemented with one or more additional ingredients (e.g., salts, phosphates, fatty acids, polysaccharides, alcohols, aromatic compounds). The hybrid proteins are useful as food ingredients (e.g., solubility, wetability, dispersibility, foaming, emulsification, viscosity, gelation or thickening agents).

Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a soothing agent and a food for treating fatigue whereby: physical strength can be quickly restored from exhaustion (a state with lowered spontaneous motility), such as after exercise or exhausting labor or upon awakening in the early morning; physical strength decline can be prevented; and physical strength can be maintained. In accordance with the present invention, a soothing agent and/or a revitalizing agent containing protein hydrolysates obtained by degrading substrate protein via germinated soybean cotyledon-derived thiol protease and/or microorganism-derived serine protease are provided.