Food products comprising a slowly digestible or digestion resistant carbohydrate composition

US8057840B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC · US

Inventors

• Michael D. Harrison · Decatur, US
• James C. Purdue · West Lafayette, US
• Penelope A. Patton · Hoffman Estates, US
• Andrew J. Hoffman · Hoffman Estates, US
• James Gaddy · Decatur, US
• Chi-Li Liu · Decatur, US
• Robert V. Schanefelt · Decatur, US
• Richard W. Armentrout · Village of La Jolla, US
• Michelle Schwenk · Decatur, US
• Rachel Wicklund · Decatur, US
• Marianne Claessens · Vilvoorde, BE
• Eric M. Reamer · North Syracuse, US
• Shawn E. Sprankle · Decatur, US
• Sanjiv H. AVASHIA · Decatur, US
• Peter M. Gautchier · McHenry, US
• Robert L. Olsen · Decatur, US
• Judy L. Turner · Decatur, US
• Timothy C. Mertz · McLeansboro, US
• Michael Bunch · Houston, US
• Doris A. Dougherty · Decatur, US
• Michel Lopez · Amiens, FR
• Lori Napier · Decatur, US
• Ram Santhanagopalan · Forsyth, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2011
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A23V2002/00
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A food product comprises an oligosaccharide composition that is digestion resistant or slowly digestible. The oligosaccharide composition can be produced by a process that comprises producing an aqueous composition that comprises at least one oligosaccharide and at least one monosaccharide by saccharification of starch, membrane filtering the aqueous composition to form a monosaccharide-rich stream and an oligosaccharide-rich stream, and recovering the oligosaccharide-rich stream. Alternatively, the oligosaccharide composition can be produced by a process that comprises heating an aqueous feed composition that comprises at least one monosaccharide or linear saccharide oligomer, and that has a solids concentration of at least about 70% by weight, to a temperature of at least about 40° C., and contacting the feed composition with at least one catalyst that accelerates the rate of cleavage or formation of glucosyl bonds for a time sufficient to cause formation of non-linear saccharide oligomers, wherein a product composition is produced that contains a higher concentration of non-linear saccharide oligomers than linear saccharide oligomers.