Co-precipitated salts of fatty acids
AssigneeJost Chemical Co.
InventorsJohn Gleason, Douglas Jost, Philip H. Merrell, Doug Caskey
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Abstract
A co-salt of a polyunsaturated fatty acid and a non-fatty acid is formed as a precipitate. The co-salt formed is free flowing and does not tend to agglomerate (cake) in storage. The resultant co-salt product will be easy to blend with other products to produce dietary supplements. These novel co-salt products may also tablet very well and may be added to current dietary supplement tablets.
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A co-salt comprised of at least a polyunsaturated fatty acid anion and at least one co-anion;
- said co-anion being an anion which is not a fatty acid anion and that is less waxy, less hydrophobic and more structurally rigid than said polyunsaturated fatty acid anion;
- said co-salt further comprising at least one cation which is ionically bonded with said polyunsaturated fatty acid anion and said at least one co-anion to define a fatty acid salt component of the co-salt and a co-anion salt component of the co-salt.
A co-salt comprised of a fatty acid salt component and a non-fatty acid salt component;
- the co-salt being granular and free flowing;
- the co-salt having at least one of an infrared spectra and an X-ray diffraction pattern in which characteristic modes for the co-salt are off-set from corresponding characteristic modes for an admixture of the fatty acid salt and co-anion salt of the co-salt.
A method of producing a co-salt of a fatty acid anion and a non-fatty acid co-anion;
- the method comprising:
- forming a salt solution comprised of a soluble fatty acid salt and a soluble non-fatty acid salt;
- adding a water solution of MX or MX2 to the salt solution to form a reaction solution, where M is a divalent or monovalent cation, or mixtures of divalent and/or monovalent cations, and X is a water soluble anion;
- and filtering the co-salt precipitate from the solution.
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