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US 12,382,972 B2Granted
Reduced carbohydrate dairy products
AssigneeCompagnie Gervais Danone
InventorsCasey McCormick, Thierry Saint-Denis, Melissa McCarthy, Paola Flabbi, Jose Maria Carles Piqueras
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Abstract
The invention relates to methods for making strained acidic, for example fermented, dairy products having reduced carbohydrates, compositions comprising strained acidic, for example fermented, dairy products having reduced carbohydrates, and methods for using such compositions, as well as products generated using strained acidic, for example fermented, dairy products having reduced carbohydrates.
Claims27
A process for making a dairy food product comprising the steps of:
- step 1) preparing a liquid acidic carbohydrate-diluted dairy product having a total weight, a carbohydrate concentration of at most 3.00% by weight of the total weight of the liquid acidic carbohydrate-diluted dairy product, a ratio by weight of protein to carbohydrate of from 0.50 to 1.50 and a pH of at most 5.00, the step 1) comprising:
- step a) providing an initial dairy material comprising proteins and at least one carbohydrate, wherein the at least one carbohydrate comprises at least one of lactose, galactose, glucose, galacto-oligosaccharides, or mixtures thereof,
- step b) diluting the at least one carbohydrate by adding an aqueous liquid, and
- step c) acidifying by fermenting with lactic acid bacteria, fermenting with enzymes, or adding an acidic compound,
- step 2) separating the liquid acidic carbohydrate-diluted dairy product to produce products comprising:
- A) a strained acidic dairy product, having a reduced carbohydrate concentration relative to the initial dairy material, and
- B) an acid whey by-product, and
- step 3) recovering the strained acidic dairy product.
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