Polyunsaturated fatty acid containing food ingredient with enhanced palatability and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneesDsm IP Assets B.V., Evonik Operations GmbH
InventorsTanya Frances Macgillivray, Jennifer Yvonne May, Michael L. Stefanski, Nasrin Tabayehnejad, Jonathan Wesley Wilson, Stephanie Lanoue Kassner
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a refined PUFA oil with an enhanced palatability comparing to the same PUFA oil without refinement. Also disclosed is a food composition for a companion animal or a food for human consumption wherein said food composition comprises the above refined PUFA oil and thus having enhanced palatability. Further disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing the above-mentioned refined PUFA oil wherein said method comprises the step of deodorization.
Claims14
A method for enhancing palatability of a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) oil product to a human or companion animal comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining a crude PUFA oil;
- (b) degumming and/or refining the crude PUFA oil obtained in step (a) by feeding the crude PUFA oil through a short path evaporator (SPE) to obtain a degummed and/or refined PUFA oil;
- and
- (c) deodorizing the degummed and/or refined PUFA oil obtained from the degumming and/or refining step (b) to obtain a deodorized PUFA oil;
- wherein
- the yield of the deodorized PUFA oil after the deodorizing step (c) is no less than 85% of the crude PUFA oil started with at the step (a), and wherein
- the deodorized PUFA oil after the deodorizing step (c) has a palatability score as measured by an animal food preference test which is at least 10 percentage points higher than the palatability score of the crude PUFA oil started with at the step (a).
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