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US 12,702,141 B2Granted
Cholesterol-enriched milk lipid composition suitable for infant nutrition, method of production, and nutritional compositions comprising the milk lipid composition
AssigneeArla Foods Amba
InventorsNikolaj Drachmann, Kristine Ingrid Marie Blans, Marie Ostenfeld, Hans Bertelsen, Kristian Raaby Poulsen
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to methods of producing cholesterol-enriched milk lipid compositions suitable for infant nutrition by membrane-based fractionation of dairy based whey, to the cholesterol-enriched milk lipid compositions as such, and to their uses as food ingredients.
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A milk lipid composition, derived from whey, comprising total cholesterol in an amount of 4-12% w/w relative to total lipid, and:
- the total lipid in an amount of 10-60% w/w relative to total solids;
- phospholipids in an amount of at least 40% w/w relative to the total lipid;
- a weight ratio between the total cholesterol and trans-fatty acids of at least 2.0;
- total protein in an amount of 30-80% w/w relative to the total solids;
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- a sum of total alpha-lactalbumin (ALA), total beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), and caseino macropeptide (CMP) constitutes at most 70% w/w of the total protein.
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