	US 12,256,752 B2
	Microemulsions carrying antioxidants
Shireen Baseeth, Decatur, IL (US); Mark Matlock, Decatur, IL (US); Kirby Swinehart, Bethany, IL (US); and Lori Wicklund, Argenta, IL (US)
Assigned to ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY, Decatur, IL (US)
Appl. No. 17/276,110
Filed by Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/051059 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 12, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/056293, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/731,375, filed on Sep. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0039418 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A23D 7/005 (2006.01); A23D 7/01 (2006.01); A23L 3/3463 (2006.01); A23L 29/10 (2016.01)

CPC A23D 7/0053 (2013.01) [A23D 7/011 (2013.01); A23L 3/3463 (2013.01); A23L 29/10 (2016.08)]

19 Claims

1. A microemulsion comprising:

(i) a plant-based antioxidant, wherein the plant-based antioxidant is selected from the group consisting of green tea extract, mint extract, rosemary, apple, acerola, olive, curcumin, phenolic acids, phenolic diterpenes, flavonoids, volatile oils, limonene, and combinations of any thereof;

(ii) water;

(iii) at least one surfactant, wherein the at least one surfactant includes lecithin;

(iv) mono/diglycerides from medium chain triglycerides;

(v) ascorbic acid present in a range between 2 and 10 percent by weight;

(vi) mixed tocopherols; and

(vii) a non-polar solvent,

wherein a weight ratio of the mixed tocopherols to the lecithin in the microemulsion is within a range between 1:4 and 1:1.