US 11,910,813 B2
Starch-soluble dietary fibre nanocomposite
Victoria Adaora Ebele Jideani, Cape Town (ZA); Yvonne Maphosa, Cape Town (ZA); Nontobeko Benhilda Gulu, Cape Town (ZA); and Daniel Imwansi Ogiemwanva Ikhu-Omoregbe, Cape Town (ZA)
Assigned to Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town (ZA)
Filed by Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town (ZA)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/500,062.
Claims priority of application No. 2016304 (GB), filed on Oct. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110356 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A23L 33/21 (2016.01); A23L 29/212 (2016.01)
CPC A23L 33/21 (2016.08) [A23L 29/212 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
 
1. A graft copolymer nanocomposite comprising:
a polysaccharide containing starch component derived from Vigna subterranea; and
a polysaccharide containing soluble dietary fibre component derived from Vigna subterranea,
wherein the nanocomposite comprises one or more copolymers of the soluble dietary fibre polysaccharide component grafted onto a matrix of the starch polysaccharide component.