High fat human milk products
AssigneeProlacta Bioscience, Inc.
InventorsSCOTT ELSTER, JOE FOURNELL, SCOTT EAKER
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Abstract
The disclosure features a human milk cream composition as well as methods of making a human milk cream composition and using a human milk cream composition. In particular, the disclosure features a method of using a human milk cream composition to raise the caloric content of human milk.
Claims24
A human milk cream composition comprising pasteurized cream derived from human milk, wherein the composition comprises about 2.5 kcal/ml.
A method of making a human milk cream composition comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining a pool of human milk,
- (b) separating the pool of human milk into a cream portion and a skim milk portion,
- (c) formulating the cream portion to obtain a cream composition comprising about 2.5 kcal/ml, and
- (d) pasteurizing the cream composition.
A method of increasing the caloric content of human milk to a desired caloric content level, the method comprising
- (a) obtaining a sample of human milk,
- (b) measuring the caloric content of the human milk,
- (c) determining a volume of a human milk cream composition needed to raise the caloric content of the human milk to the desired caloric content level, and
- (d) adding the volume of the human milk cream composition to the container of human milk.
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