Structured protein isolates and related methods
AssigneeClimax Foods Inc.
InventorsAvinash Singh Patel, Daniel Westcott, Malgorzata Jakubasch, Vivian Jones
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Abstract
A food product and/or an ingredient thereof can include: a lipid component, structured protein isolates, and/or any other ingredients. The method for forming structured protein isolates can include: obtaining protein isolate units from a protein source, and collecting the structured protein isolates.
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A composition comprising a protein mixture comprising structured protein isolates, each structured protein isolate comprising an aggregate of at least three protein isolate units, wherein the protein isolate units are obtained from a plant source, wherein at least 20% of protein isolate units in the protein mixture are arranged into the structured protein isolates, wherein the structured protein isolates are extracted from an insoluble fraction of a solution.
A composition comprising a protein component and a lipid component, the protein component comprising structured protein isolates, each structured protein isolate comprising an aggregate of at least three protein isolate units, wherein the protein isolate units are obtained from a plant source, wherein at least 90% of protein isolate units in the protein component are not denatured.
A plant-based food product obtained by a process comprising:
- obtaining protein isolate units from a plant source;
- diluting the protein isolate units to form a diluted protein isolate mixture;
- collecting an insoluble fraction from the diluted protein isolate mixture, wherein the insoluble fraction comprises structured protein isolates, each structured protein isolate comprising aggregated protein isolate units;
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- producing a plant-based food product comprising the insoluble fraction and a lipid component, wherein the food product is characterized by a distance to failure of at least 100 mm as determined by an extensibility assay procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.