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AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsAlireza Abbaspourrad, Javad Amani, Michael Jedwab, Nancy Stevenson
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A thickener is disclosed, as well as a nutritional product including the thickener, uses thereof, methods for the manufacture thereof, methods for improving the cohesiveness of a nutritional product, and related systems. The nutritional products have improved cohesiveness for promoting safer and more efficient swallowing of food boluses for individuals having swallowing difficulties such as dysphagia. In a preferred embodiment, the nutritional product includes a thickener comprising a beta-glucan and an additive. Preferably, the nutritional product has a relaxation time, determined by a Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) experiment, of from 10 ms to 2000 ms at a temperature of 20° C.
A thickener comprising a beta-glucan and an additive, wherein the thickener is formulated for providing a nutritional product a relaxation time, determined by a Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) experiment, of more than 10 ms (milliseconds) at a temperature of 20° C., wherein the additive comprises a combination selected from the group consisting of
A nutritional product comprising a diluent and further comprising a beta-glucan and an additive, the nutritional product having a relaxation time, determined by a Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) experiment, of more than 10 ms (milliseconds) at a temperature of 20° C., wherein the additive comprises at least two gums selected from the group of gum arabic, carrageenan lambda, carrageenan iota, carrageenan kappa, sodium alginate, konjac, locust bean gum, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), chitosan, pectin, acacia gum, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), tara gum, guar gum, and xanthan.
A method of preventing, alleviating, and/or compensating swallowing dysfunction in a patient in need thereof, the method comprising:
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