US 6,440,470 B2 · Elemental enteral nutritional product

Abstract

The present invention is directed to an elemental liquid nutritional product useful for providing nutrition to a patient having a malabsorption condition by enterally feeding to the patient a nutritionally effective amount of the liquid nutritional products of the present invention. One nutritional product of the present invention includes a protein system in which at least 65 w/w % of said proteins have a molecular weight of less than 5,000 daltons. The proteins system includes soy protein hydrolysate, and partially hydrolyzed caseinate. The preferred products further include a structured lipid formed from marine oil and medium chain triglyceride oil. Palatability of elemental nutritional products has been improved by keeping caloric density in a range from 0.60 kcal/ml to about 1.05 kcal/ml and incorporating sufficient amounts of selected palatability enhancers.

Claims36

Dependent claims

A protein system suitable for incorporation into elemental liquid nutritional products comprising:

a) from about 40 w/w % to about 90 w/w % soy protein hydrolysate,
b) from about 10 w/w % to about 60 w/w % of partially hydrolyzed caseinate in which:
i) the fraction of the caseinate having a molecular weight greater than 10,000 daltons and less than 25,000 daltons is at least 26 w/w % of the total caseinate present and is no more than about 55 w/w % of the total caseinate present, and;
ii) the fraction of the caseinate having a molecular weight of less than 14,000 daltons, is less than about 20 w/w % of the total caseinate present, and;
c) optionally, from about 0 w/w % to about 10 w/w % of arginine.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/852,567Filed 10 May 2001 · continuation

Priority

1 May 1998

Published

US 2001/0043958 A122 Nov 2001

Granted

27 Aug 2002

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

A23L 33/18
Amino acids, peptides or proteins: peptides; Protein hydrolysates
A23L 33/00
Modifying nutritive qualities of foods
A23L 33/12
Fatty acids or derivatives thereof; Fats or oils: fatty acids or derivatives thereof
A23L 33/40
Modifying nutritive qualities of foods; Dietetic products; Preparation or treatment thereof: complete food formulations for specific consumer…

Family

Application09/071,639Parent of this continuation · filed 1 May 1998

Application09/563,384Parent of this continuation · filed 3 May 2000

US 6,194,379 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Feb 2001

US 6,258,387 B1Parent of this continuation

US 2001/0043958 A1Published application

US 6,440,470 B2This patent

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Elemental enteral nutritional product

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Elemental enteral nutritional product

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Abstract

Claims36