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US 2013/0171318 A1Published application
Whey protein micelles
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsLionel Jean Rene Bovetto, Christophe Schmitt, Frederic Robin, Matthieu Pouzot
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Abstract
The present invention relates to whey protein micelles, particularly to whey protein micelle concentrates or powders thereof and to a method for producing them. The present invention also pertains to the use of these micelles concentrates or powders thereof in nutrition and/or cosmetics and/or pharmaceutics.
Claims21
A powder comprising:
- whey protein in which at least 20 wt % of the whey protein is whey protein micelles, and greater than 80% of the whey protein micelles have an average size between 100 nm and 700 nm.
A whey protein micelle concentrate comprising at least 12 wt % of the concentrate as protein, at least 50 wt % of the protein is micelles, and greater than 80% of the micelles have an average size between 100 nm and 700 nm.
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