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OwnerSteven W. BAILEY, June E. AYLINGinventors
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Compositions of foods, vitamin and mineral supplements, topical or oral drugs, and cosmetic products containing a small peptide or peptides for slowing degradation, for example by transition metals. The peptides are di, tri, terra-, and/or penta-peptides containing two or more aspartic acid residues. The degradation of several of the vitamin and other constituents vitamin-mineral supplements can be considerably slowed by composition incorporating such peptides, particularly if soluble (and thus bioavailable) forms of copper and/or iron are also present. The peptides can be hydrolyzed by the normal digestive process thus releasing bound metals. Multiple aspartate peptide(s) compositions with foods, topical or oral drugs, cosmetic, and hair care products can replace synthetic chelating preservative agents. Methods are also described to effectively slow degradation and preserve the above products using multiple aspartate peptides.
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A composition comprising:
A method for decreasing the rate of decomposition of a food product, a vitamin and mineral supplement product, a nutrient product, a drug product, a cosmetic product, or a hair care product comprising incorporating an effective amount of one or more peptides, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, into the food product, the vitamin and mineral supplement product, the nutrient product, the drug product, the cosmetic product, or the hair care product, wherein the one or more peptides have two to five amino acid residues, at least two of the residues are aspartic acid, and the one or more peptides do not contain histidine.
A method for stabilizing a hair from metal catalyzed degradation comprising incorporating an effective amount of one or more peptides, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, into a hair-care product and applying the hair-care product to the hair, wherein each peptide has two to five amino acid residues, at least two of the residues are aspartic acid residues, and wherein the one or more peptides do not contain histidine.
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