Method for preserving milk for jewelry production
AssigneeKeepsakeMom Creations Inc.
InventorsStephen G. Haralampu, Jefferson Thachuk
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Abstract
A method for preserving a milk sample by adding a denaturing/reducing solution to a milk sample to form a first mixture, incubating the first mixture at 50° C. to 100° C. for at least 3 min. to denature and reduce the milk sample, cooling the sample to ambient temperature, adding one or more preservatives and an inert solid material to form a second mixture, and drying the second mixture to form the preserved milk sample. Also disclosed is a dry preserved milk composition and a method for preparing milk-containing jewelry by grinding the preserved milk sample, mixing it with a resin and a hardener, and curing the resin.
Claims24
A method for preserving a milk sample, the method comprising:
- adding a denaturing/reducing solution comprising a buffer, a denaturing agent, and a reducing agent to a milk sample to form a first mixture;
- incubating the first mixture at 50° C. to 100° C. for at least 3 min to denature and reduce the milk sample;
- cooling the denatured reduced milk sample to ambient temperature;
- adding to the cooled denatured reduced milk sample one or more preservatives and one or more inert solid materials to form a second mixture;
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- drying the second mixture, thereby forming the preserved milk sample.
A dry preserved milk composition, comprising denatured and reduced milk proteins, one or more preservatives, and one or more inert solid materials, wherein the one or more preservatives are selected from an antioxidant, an antimicrobial agent, and a chelating agent and the one or more inert solid materials are selected from waxy rice starch, corn starch, microcrystalline cellulose, wheat starch, tapioca starch, potato starch, quinoa starch, pea starch, talc, maltodextrin, titanium dioxide, fumed silica, zirconium silicate, calcium carbonate, and basic lead carbonate.
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