Thickened formula for allergic infants
AssigneeN.V. Nutricia
InventorsEvan Abrahamse, Lauriane Emmanuelle Mélanie Schwebel, Sebastian Tims, Leonardo Cornacchia
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Abstract
The invention concerns formula for based on extensively hydrolysed protein and/or free amino acids for allergic infants that are thickened with a combination of xanthan gum and locust bean gum.
Claims15
A nutritional composition comprising digestible carbohydrates, lipids, protein and thickener suitable for providing nutrition to an infant or young child suffering from cow's milk protein allergy, wherein the protein is or essentially consists of extensively hydrolysed protein and/or free amino acids and wherein the thickener comprises a combination of xanthan gum and locust bean gum, the nutritional composition being in the form of a ready to drink liquid or in the form of a powder that upon reconstitution with water is a ready to drink liquid, wherein the xanthan gum is present in an amount of 0.03 to 0.07 g/100 ml, preferably 0.03 to 0.06 g/100 ml, even more preferably 0.04 to 0.05 g/100 ml ready to drink nutritional composition and locust bean gum is present in an amount of 0.03 to 0.07 g/100 ml, more preferably 0.03 to 0.06 g/100 ml, even more preferably 0.04 to 0.05 g/100 ml ready to drink nutritional composition and the wt/wt ratio of xanthan gum to locust bean gum is from 0.8 to 1.2.
The nutritional composition according to any one of the preceding claims, for use in the dietary management of an infant or young child that suffers from allergy, preferably that suffers from cow's milk protein allergy.
Use of a combination of xanthan gum and locust bean gum as thickeners in a hypoallergenic nutritional composition that is suitable for an infant or young child that suffers from cow's milk protein allergy, wherein the hypoallergenic nutritional composition comprises digestible carbohydrates, lipids and protein, wherein the protein is or essentially consists of extensively hydrolysed protein and/or free amino acids, wherein in the nutritional composition the xanthan gum is present in an amount of 0.03 to 0.07 g/100 ml, preferably 0.03 to 0.06 g/100 ml, even more preferably 0.04 to 0.05 g/100 ml ready to drink nutritional composition and locust bean gum is present in an amount of 0.03 to 0.07 g/100 ml, more preferably 0.03 to 0.06 g/100 ml, even more preferably 0.04 to 0.05 g/100 ml ready to drink nutritional composition and the wt/wt ratio of xanthan gum to locust bean gum is from 0.8 to 1.2, more preferably 0.9 to 1.1.
A process for preparing a nutritional composition according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising
- a. providing a liquid nutritional composition comprising extensively hydrolysed protein and/or free amino acids as protein source, digestible carbohydrates, and lipids and optionally non-digestible oligosaccharide,
- b. drying the liquid obtained in step a) to powder, preferably by spray drying, and
- c. dry blending xanthan gum and locust bean gum and optional waxy starch, with the powder obtained in step b.
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