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US 2015/0306121 A1Published application
Processing of natural polysaccharides by selected non-pathogenic microorganisms and methods of making and using the same
AssigneeMannatech, Inc.
InventorRobert A. Sinnott
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Abstract
The present invention includes compositions and methods of making and using a dietary supplement manufactured from one or more natural polysaccharides previously incubated with a probiotic bacteria in a bioreactor system, wherein the bacteria process the polysaccharides and the resulting processed polysaccharide are provided in the nutritional supplement.
Claims20
A method of preparing a dietary supplement comprising:
- extracting polysaccharides from one or more sources of plants;
- incubating the polysaccharides with a probiotic bacteria in a bioreactor system, wherein the bacteria process the polysaccharides;
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- packaging the resulting processed polysaccharide into a nutritional supplement dose.
1 more element
A method of providing a dietary supplement formulation to a subject comprising:
- identifying a subject in need of dietary supplementation with saccharides;
- extracting complex polysaccharides from one or more plant sources of the complex polysaccharides;
- incubating the complex polysaccharides with a probiotic bacteria in a bioreactor system, wherein the bacteria process the polysaccharides into lower molecular weights, wherein the probiotic bacteria comprise a human colonic bacteria selected from Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Leuconostoc, Acetobacter, Candida, Kluveromyces, Saccharomyces, Torula, Torulaspora, Debaryomyces, Zygosaccharomyces, Bacterioides, Bacillus, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptostreptococcus, Ruminococcus and Pediococcus;
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- packaging the resulting processed polysaccharide into a nutritional supplement dose of processed polysaccharides, wherein the complexity of the polysaccharides is reduced by the probiotic bacteria to increase polysaccharide utilization by the subject.
2 more elements
A dietary supplement for providing nutritional supplementation of saccharides, the method comprising:
- mixing one or more natural polysaccharides with a human intestinal gut probiotic bacteria in a bioreactor system under conditions that stimulate the processing by natural gut bacteria to make a processed polysaccharide having a different molecular weight;
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- packaging the processed polysaccharide into a dietary supplement, wherein at least a portion of the natural polysaccharides have been processed by the bacteria.
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