251 results about "Nutrient supplementation" patented technology

A method for producing a chewing gum with a controlled release active agent, as well as the chewing gum so produced, is obtained by physically modifying the release properties of the active agent, such as a nutraceutical or nutritional supplement, by coating and drying. The active agent is coated by encapsulation, partially coated by agglomeration, entrapped by absorption, or treated by multiple steps of encapsulation, agglomeration, and absorption. The coated active agent is preferably then co-dried and particle sized to produce a release-modified active agent for use in chewing gum. The active agent may also be used in a coating on a chewing gum product, as part of a rolling compound applied to the chewing gum product, or as a part of the liquid in a liquid-center chewing gum product.

Triglyceride oil derived from marine sources, mammalian and fish, is treated with a silica at relatively low temperature under vacuum and is then further treated with a bleaching clay under vacuum and at higher temperature. The silica and the bleaching clay are then separated from the oil. The oil treated by this method is essentially free of proteinaceous materials, phosphatides and mucilage, pro-oxidant metals and very low in colored compounds, and is suitable for deodorizing. The deodorized oil is completely bland, unchanged in the concentration of the long-chain highly unsaturated fatty acids (EPA, DPA and DHA), very low in color, peroxides and secondary oxidation products, free of pesticides and has very good flavor stability. The method avoids the use of any chemicals, such as in the acid and base treatments required in conventional degumming and alkali refining of oils of marine origin. This avoids the formation of artifacts in the oil and trace contamination with chemicals. It also reduces the number of process steps required to produce deodorized food oil from marine sources, which is advantageous in respect to oil quality, process losses and processing costs. The method is especially environmentally advantageous, since it avoids the need for soapstock and waste water processing entirely. Refined oil produced by the method is useful as a nutritional supplement and in methods of therapy or medical treatment.

The subject invention provides methods for producing homogenous organic base fertilizer for plant nutrition and soil fertility. Also provided by the subject invention are value added fertilizer products for plant nutrition and soil fertility and concentrated liquid formulations/nutrient supplements that provide the value added nutrients to fertilizer products. Methods according to the invention involve the application of concentrated liquid(s) and/or dry formulation(s) comprising a mixture of one or more plant nutrient(s), one or more additional organic compound(s), one or more penetrate(s), and one or more optional supplement(s) into one or more organic base material(s). These organic base materials include, and are not limited to, biosolids, activated sludge, municipal compost, animal manures (e.g., horse, cow, chicken, pig, and sheep), and composted organic byproducts.

Provided are compositions comprising compounds or precursors to compounds which may be used for a variety of therapeutic applications including, for example, treating and/or preventing a disease or disorder related to reduced or inadequate mitochondrial activity, including aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases. The compounds relate generally to urolithins and precursors thereof, including but not limited to ellagitannins and urolithin A. In certain embodiments the compositions are presented in or as food products or nutritional supplements. These same compounds and compositions can also be used advantageously in generally healthy individuals to increase or maintain metabolic rate, decrease percent body fat, increase or maintain muscle mass, manage body weight, improve or maintain mental performance (including memory), improve or maintain muscle performance, improve or maintain mood, and manage stress.

The invention relates to a water-soluble plant growth nutrient solution and a preparation method. In the plant growth nutrient solution, the content of small molecular weight water-soluble chitosan accounts for 8-120g/L, the sum of the content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is larger than or equal to 60g/L, the sum of the content of medium trace elements accounts for 3-30g/L, the content of organic matter accounts for 30-200g/L, the content of plant growth regulator accounts for 0.01-5g/L, and the content of spread penetrating agents is larger than or equal to 0.2g/L; the small molecular weight water-soluble chitosan is obtained through the preparation steps that chitosan is firstly subjected to alkalization of strong base, then subjected to carboxyl chemical modification, degraded through strong oxidant after carboxyl chemical modification and finally neutralized through acid. The water-soluble plant growth nutrient solution integrates the effects of nutritional complement, growth promotion, antibiosis, virus resistance, stress tolerance and the like and has multiple functions and effects of improving soil, preventing hardening, increasing ground temperature, resisting to disease, being tolerant to stress, resisting to continuous cropping, supplementing nutrition rapidly, raising the yield and improving fruit quality and the like.

The present invention provides a food product comprising: calcium citrate malate in an amount providing a level of solubilized calcium of at least about 0.18% by weight of the product, and a level of total acids of at least about 0.7% by weight of the product; vitamin D in an amount of at least about 10% of the RDA; one or more trace minerals in an amount of at least about 10% of the RDA of each trace mineral provided; and a stabilized buffering protein component in an amount of at least about 0.1% by weight of the product. A method for forming such a calcium and trace mineral fortified product is also provided which uses a stabilized acidified buffering protein component.

A dietary nutritional supplement is designed specifically to address the needs of moderate to heavy alcohol product consumers. The nutritional supplement contains effective amounts of essential components vitamin B₂, vitamin B₆, vitamin B₁₂ (Cobalamin), vitamin B₃ (Niacin), vitamin B₁ (Thiamin), Calcium, magnesium, vitamin A, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), folic acid, L-cysteine, L-methionine, Milk Thistle, selenium, dandelion, and Molybdenum.

The present invention discloses a solid drink having weight losing and body slimming functions. The solid drink is prepared from the following raw materials according to a certain proportion: soybean protein isolate, whey protein, L-carnitine, tartrate, chitin, conjugated linoleic acid glyceride micro-capsule powder, a cassia seed extract, skim milk powder, collagen powder, soybean lecithin, a lotus leaf extract, a white kidney bean extract, polydextrose, isomaltooligosaccharide, enzyme powder, konjac flour, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and excipients of essence pigments and maltodextrin. The solid drink takes into account the comprehensive needs of people taking the solid drink in nutritional supplement, metabolic regulation, satiated meal, taste in taking, etc., avoids the common problems of the existing weight losing products to the human body, contains the necessary functional components for the weight losing, also considers the accessory functions of regulating gastrointestinal functional regulations, blood lipids and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, improving skin, etc., fully blends and supplements the various functional components, plays the weight losing and body slimming effect, and also has a certain health-care role.

The present invention provides compositions and methods designed to increase value output of a fermentation reaction. In particular, the present invention provides a business method of increasing value output of a fermentation plant. The present invention also provides a modified fermentation residual of higher commercial value. Also provided in the present invention are complete animal feeds, nutritional supplements comprising the subject ferment residuals. Further provided by the present invention is a method of performing fermentation, a modified fermentative microorganism and a genetic vehicle for modifying such microoganism.

A daily liquid supplement for ocular and body health containing at least one of lutein, zeaxanthin, meso-zeaxanthin and astaxanthin for a human subject for nutritionally supplementing macular pigments is disclosed. The micronized nutrients in a lipid based emulsion are more efficiently absorbed into the bloodstream than conventional supplement formulations resulting in higher serum levels and increased macular pigment.

The invention belongs to a method for producing plant fertilizers, more particularly to a method for producing a solid-state Ca/Mg/Ti/Fe/S/N/Si compound fertilizer from water-quenched blast furnace slag. The invention is characterized in that: the raw materials include titanium oxide-containing water-quenched blast furnace slag, ammonium sulfate, ammonium hydrogen sulfate, ammonium pyrosulfate and ammonium persulfate; the method comprises the following steps: ball-milling Ti-containing water-quenched blast furnace slag to obtain powder of particle size of 60-160 micrometers, mixing the furnace slag powder with 3-20 times of one substance selected from ammonium sulfate, ammonium hydrogen sulfate, ammonium pyrosulfate, ammonium persulfate, or a mixture thereof, heating the resulting mixture up to 200-500 DEG C and maintaining the temperature for 10-65 min, and crushing clinkers to small pieces of 4-12 mm diameter. The invention utilizes Ti-containing water-quenched blast furnace slag and other raw materials to produce plant fertilizers, and thereby realizes environmental protection, Ti resource utilization and nutrient supplementation to plants.

The present invention provides uses of multi-nutrient supplements to rescue aberrant biochemical pathways and reduce birth defect caused by maternal diabetes. Choice of supplements is based on the ability of each supplement to correct the following hyperglycemia-associated abnormalities: increased reactive oxygen species generation, abnormal membrane phospholipid metabolism, and decreased glutathione synthesis.

The present invention provides improved dietary supplements and methods for alleviating the symptoms of dry eye. The dietary supplements of the invention contain omega-3 fatty acids and flavonoids.

The invention relates to a powder, such as an amino acid and/or protein powder that is optimized for human beings in the respect that its combined amino acid profile reflects the amino acid profile of human mother's milk protein. The invented powder, such as an amino acid and/or protein powder is suitable to be used as a nutrition supplement and relates also to tablets, capsules or pellets comprising said protein mixture, as well as food products comprising said protein mixture.

The invention provides a complementary food nutritional bag for infants and children and a preparation method thereof and relates to the technical field of complementary food nutrition complementary goods. The complementary food nutritional bag is mainly composed of following raw and complementary materials in weight percent: 70-90% of instant soybean powder, 2-10% of whole milk powder, 0.05-0.1% of a multivitamin premix, 4-7% of a multiple-mineral substance premix and 0.25-0.75% of DHA algae oil powder. According to the complementary food nutritional bag, multiple vitamins and mineral substances which have high density are added into the instant soybean powder and the whole milk powder; the complementary food nutritional bag can be used as a nutrient supplementary food of the complementary food for the infants and the children and the nutrition and the health of the infants and the children can be improved.

The invention discloses a health care tea drink prepared from agaric, and belongs to the technical field of foods and drinks. The health care tea drink is prepared from the following raw materials by weight: 10 to 12 kg of agaric, 2 to 4 kg of glossy ganoderma, 1 to 2 kg of spore powder, 2 to 4 kg of Pleurotusnebrodensis, 15 to 20 kg of mushroom, 15 to 20 kg of spiral seaweed, 1 to 2 kg of Cordyceps sinensis, 1 to 2 kg of common phellinus fungus, 1 to 2 kg of medlar, 0.2 to 0.5 kg of manyflower solomonseal rhizome, 1 to 3 kg of dark plum, 1 to 3 kg of Chinese magnoliavine fruit, 1 to 2 kg of kudzuvine root, 2 to 10 kg of puncturevine caltrop fruit, 5 to 10 kg of chrysanthemum, 3 to 10 kg of cassia seed, 0.4 to 1 kg of pilose asiabell root, 1 to 3 kg of membranous milkvetch root, 3 to 8 kg of Chinese date, 3 to 8 kg of hawthorn, 1 to 3 kg of almond, 1 to 2 kg of lily, 1 to 3 kg of lotus seed, 1 to 3 kg of dioscorea, 1 to 2 kg of peach blossom, 0.2 to 2 kg of jasmine flower, 0.2 to 2 kg of wild chrysanthemum, 2 to 7 kg of corn silk and 1 to 2 kg of desertliving cistanche. The health care tea drink has the advantages of performing targeted nutrient supplementation according to patient characteristics, achieving the effects of clearing, protecting, supplementing and balancing a human body, protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, expanding and softening blood vessels, reducing blood fat, promoting microcirculation, improving lung circulation, and timely delivering nutrient to target areas.

The invention provides pregnant woman milk powder capable of restraining early pregnancy reaction and a preparation method thereof. The milk powder based on 100 parts by weight comprises the following raw materials in part by weight: 320-400 parts of milk, 25-30 parts of skimmed milk powder, 7-22 parts of whey protein powder, 1-4 parts of purple perilla seed oil, 1.5-2.5 parts of ginger, 0.5-1.2 parts of fructo-oligosaccharide, 0.5-2.4 parts of galacto-oligosaccharides, 0.2-0.7 parts of DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) powder, 0.1-0.25 parts of soyabean lecithin and 0.008-0.02 parts of bifidobacterium. The pregnant woman milk powder has the beneficial effects that early pregnancy vomiting and other physiological reactions can be reduced or dispelled, and the comprehensive nutritional supplement is provided for pregnant women to ensure various nutrients necessary for fetus growth and development; and the milk powder can simultaneously dispel the fishy smell of the DHA powder and the hot taste of the ginger so as to be more easily received by the pregnant women.

Nutritional supplements comprising keratin protein either in powder or liquid form as well as novel methods of producing soluble keratin proteins by oxidation are provided. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a soluble keratin protein product can be produced by treating an insoluble keratin source in an oxidizing solution at low pH and heat for a sufficient time to oxidize essentially all of the cysteine residues in the protein. By then raising the pH to the pKa of the proteins, or to the point at which the protein is present in the salt form, a solution of high molecular weight proteins that are in a low salt solution can be obtained. This solution is essentially free of peptides and salts that have an adverse effect on flavor and palatability, and maintains a high proportion of sulfur amino acids for beneficial health effects. The resulting protein product can be dissolved into water, juice, or a nutritional drink, or sprinkled on food. Alternatively, the protein can be provided as a liquid supplement.

The invention discloses a neural stem cell culture amplification method, which comprises the following steps of culturing different sources of neural stem cells with a culture solution, adding a nutritional supplement solution, replacing a fresh culture solution, selecting a certain size of neurospheres for passage and the like. A formula of a relative culture solution, the nutritional supplement solution and other compositions is also provided. The method obviously improves the proliferation efficiency of neural stem cells under static culture, no antibiotics are used, and the cost is lower. The method is suitable for industrial production.

A nutritional supplement dispenser for attachment to a bicycle frame or to a runner's belt has a hollow case with an openable top for placing tablets in the case and an inclined bottom tending to urge tablets forward under the influence of gravity. A dispenser located at a low point of the case dispenses a single tablet into an athlete's hand when manually depressed. VELCRO® brand fastener-equipped straps attach the case to the top tube and down tube of a bicycle or to a belt worn by a runner. Magnetically biased and spring biased dispensing mechanisms are described. A push-button dispensing mechanism is described. Bicycle-frame-conforming aerodynamic wings and a holster are described.