US 11,950,605 B2
Product and method of producing dairy products comprising dairy-derived emulsifying salts
Thomas Alexander Glenn, III, Shoreview, MN (US); and Richard Dinesen, Woodbury, MN (US)
Assigned to Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, MN (US)
Filed by Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, MN (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,789.
Application 17/725,789 is a continuation of application No. 16/382,915, filed on Apr. 12, 2019, granted, now 11,337,435.
Prior Publication US 2022/0240530 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. A23C 19/08 (2006.01)
CPC A23C 19/08 (2013.01) [A23C 2210/206 (2013.01); A23C 2250/054 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01); A23V 2200/222 (2013.01); A23V 2250/032 (2013.01); A23V 2250/046 (2013.01); A23V 2250/1614 (2013.01); A23V 2300/34 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for producing a dairy product, the method comprising:
adjusting a phosphate-to-calcium ratio of a starting dairy material by removing at least a portion of chloride (Cl−) or calcium (Ca+) from the starting dairy material;
subjecting the starting dairy material with the portion of chloride or calcium removed to anion exchange of phosphate and citrate for an anion of an eluting solution to produce a mineral-depleted dairy material;
concentrating the mineral-depleted dairy material; and
combining the concentrated mineral-depleted dairy material with dairy components produced from the starting dairy material to produce the dairy product,
wherein due to the presence of phosphate and citrate native to the starting dairy material in the concentrated mineral-depleted dairy material, the dairy product contains an amount of native phosphate and citrate sufficient to emulsify fat and hydrate protein in the dairy product.