	US 12,250,953 B2
	Structured protein isolates and related methods
Avinash Singh Patel, Berkeley, CA (US); Daniel Westcott, Berkeley, CA (US); Malgorzata Jakubasch, Berkeley, CA (US); and Vivian Jones, Berkeley, CA (US)
Assigned to Climax Foods Inc., Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed by Climax Foods Inc., Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/210,799.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/432,915, filed on Dec. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/352,773, filed on Jun. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0404099 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. A23C 20/02 (2021.01); A23J 3/14 (2006.01)

CPC A23C 20/02 (2013.01) [A23J 3/14 (2013.01)]

16 Claims

1. A composition comprising a protein mixture comprising structured protein isolates, each structured protein isolate comprising an aggregate of at least three protein isolate units, wherein the protein isolate units are obtained from a plant source comprising hemp, wherein at least 20% of protein isolate units in the protein mixture are arranged into the structured protein isolates, wherein the structured protein isolates are extracted from an insoluble fraction of a solution of protein isolates, wherein a pH of the solution of protein isolates is at least 8 during extraction of the structured protein isolates, wherein the composition is characterized by a distance to failure of at least 100 mm.