Methods of manufacturing nutritional formulations
AssigneeClover Co., Ltd.
InventorsBo Wang, Glenn Elliott, Mek Chu Ting Cheng, Craig Stewart Patch, Brenda Louis Mossel
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Abstract
The present invention broadly relates to methods for manufacturing nutritional formulations, and nutritional formulations produced by said methods, comprising a fatty acid in a double emulsion (O/W/O emulsion).
Claims16
A method for producing a nutritional formulation comprising one or more fatty acids, said method comprising the steps of:
- (i) providing a double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within an edible oil stream such as vegetable oil by:
- (a) preparing a double emulsion (O/W/O emulsion) characterised by an internal oil phase comprising one or more fatty acids dispersed in an aqueous phase which is in turn dispersed in an external oil phase and dispersing said double emulsion into a vegetable oil stream;
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- (b) preparing an oil-in-water emulsion (O/W emulsion) characterised by an internal oil phase comprising one or more fatty acids dispersed in an aqueous phase and dispersing said O/W emulsion in a vegetable oil stream thereby forming said double emulsion in-situ;
- (ii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within the edible oil stream such as vegetable oil with an aqueous phase;
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- (iii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within an aqueous phase;
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- (iv) homogenising the double emulsion mixture of step (ii) or (iii) to form the nutritional formulation.
A method for producing a nutritional formulation comprising one or more fatty acids, said method comprising the steps of:
- (i) providing a double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within an edible oil stream such as vegetable oil by preparing a double emulsion (O/W/O emulsion) characterised by an internal oil phase comprising one or more fatty acids dispersed in an aqueous phase which is in turn dispersed in an external oil phase and dispersing said double emulsion into a vegetable oil stream;
- (ii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within the edible oil stream, such as vegetable oil with an aqueous phase;
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- (iii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within an aqueous phase;
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- (iv) homogenising the double emulsion mixture of step (ii) or (iii) to form the nutritional formulation.
A method for producing a nutritional formulation comprising one or more fatty acids, said method comprising the steps of:
- (i) providing a double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within a vegetable oil stream by preparing an oil-in-water emulsion (O/W emulsion) characterised by an internal oil phase comprising one or more fatty acids dispersed in an aqueous phase and dispersing said O/W emulsion in a vegetable oil stream thereby forming said double emulsion in-situ;
- (ii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within the edible oil stream such as vegetable oil with an aqueous phase;
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- (iii) mixing the double emulsion of said one or more fatty acids within an aqueous phase;
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- (iv) homogenising the double emulsion mixture of step (ii) or (iii) to form the nutritional formulation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.