Milk and Egg Phospholipid Composition for Bioavailable Choline

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing nutritional compositions fail to provide high bioavailability of choline, essential for infant, pregnant woman, and senior nutrition, as choline salts are not effectively absorbed by the body.

Innovation Solution

A nutritional composition combining milk and egg phospholipids, optionally with vegetable phospholipids, to ensure high bioavailability of choline, meeting the nutritional requirements of infants, pregnant women, and seniors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If choline salts are added to nutritional composition to reach high choline levels, then choline content is improved, but bioavailability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecholine contentVSAvoidbioavailability

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical form of choline from salts to phospholipid-bound choline, altering the parameter of choline presentation to improve bioavailability while maintaining adequate choline content

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses composite phospholipid structures (combining milk and egg phospholipids) to deliver choline in a bioavailable form, creating a synergistic effect that improves both content and bioavailability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If phospholipid sources are combined to improve choline bioavailability, then bioavailability is improved, but composition complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovebioavailabilityVSAvoidcomposition complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges milk phospholipids and egg phospholipids into a single nutritional composition, combining their complementary phospholipid profiles to enhance choline bioavailability while managing composition complexity through integration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20260013538A1Nutritional composition comprising milk and egg phospholipids

Publication Date: 2026.01.15 AAK AB(PUBL)

AI summary

The present invention provides a nutritional composition especially well suited as an infant nutritional composition, but also as a nutritional support product for pregnant women and as senior nutritional supplement, where phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin, and thus choline, also are highly relevant. The present invention provides a nutritional composition which contains choline of high bio-availability.