Ass Milk Food Composition for Premature Infant Nutrition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current feeding solutions for premature babies, convalescent subjects, and the elderly are inadequate due to nutritional deficiencies and sensitization issues caused by cow's milk-derived products, which can lead to allergies and intolerances, and lack essential biological activities.
Innovation Solution
A food composition derived from ass's milk, processed through ultrafiltration to retain biological functions, providing a balanced mix of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and essential nutrients, including caseins, lactoferrin, and PUFAs, which is well-tolerated and biologically active, and can be used as a breast milk supplement or energy fortifier.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If cow's milk-derived fortifiers are used to supplement premature babies, then protein and nutrient intake is improved, but sensitization phenomena and allergies occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the beneficial nutritional components (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals) from ass's milk while eliminating the harmful allergenic properties associated with cow's milk proteins. This is achieved through selective ultrafiltration that retains beneficial proteins like lactoferrin and caseins while removing allergenic bovine proteins, thus providing nutrition without sensitization risk
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the source parameter from cow's milk to ass's milk, which has fundamentally different protein composition and allergenicity profiles. Ass's milk proteins are structurally more similar to human milk proteins and exhibit lower immunogenicity, thereby maintaining nutritional adequacy while reducing allergic responses in premature infants
2Ease of manufacture
If commercially available fortifiers are used, then nutrient formulation is simplified, but biological activities and essential nutritional elements are deficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a composite nutritional product by combining multiple ass's milk-derived components (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals) into a single fortifier formulation. This composite approach preserves the synergistic biological activities present in natural ass's milk while providing comprehensive nutrition, overcoming the limitations of simplified commercial formulations that lack essential biological functions
3Object-affected harmful factors
If human milk-derived products are used, then nutritional compatibility is improved, but cost becomes too high for market availability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copy of human milk's beneficial properties by using ass's milk as an alternative source. Ass's milk naturally contains proteins, fats, and carbohydrates with compositions more similar to human milk than cow's milk, providing comparable nutritional compatibility and biological activities at a lower production cost, making it commercially viable
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The ass's milk-derived composition improves clinical, metabolic, and neurological outcomes in premature babies and provides a suitable nutritional intake for sensitive and elderly subjects, overcoming the limitations of existing products by maintaining enzymatic activity and being less allergenic.
Implementation Method 1
processed through ultrafiltration to retain biological functions
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AI summary
The subject-matter of the invention is a food composition derived from ass's milk, which is useful in the feeding of premature babies, weak and/or delicate and/or convalescent subjects and/or the elderly.