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US 2016/0353788 A1Published application
Thickener composition for dysphagia patients
AssigneeN.V. Nutricia
InventorEdward Lucian SLIWINSKI
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Abstract
The invention relates to thickening compositions for thickening nutritional products to make the nutritional product suitable for consumption by dysphagia patients, said thickening composition comprising starch, xanthum gum and/or methylcellulose and galactomannan and/or glucomannan.
Claims5
A composition for thickening a nutritional product, based on the total dry weight of the product, comprising:
- (a) 40-70 wt. % starch;
- (b) 1-5 wt. % xanthan gum, methylcellulose, or both;
- (c) 4-20 wt. % tara gum;
- and (d) 15-55 wt. % maltodextrin, wherein the weight ratio of ingredients (b):(c) is in the range of 1:4 to 1:10.
1 more element
The thickened nutritional product according to claim 5 which has an energy density between 1.3-2 kcal/ml.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.