	US 12,290,079 B2
	High-protein, acidified, liquid dairy product having a reduced viscosity, method of producing it, and related ingredients
Britt Christensen, Århus C (DK); Peter Langborg Wejse, Aarhus N (DK); Søren Bang Nielsen, Herning (DK); and Robert Muir, Videbæk (DK)
Assigned to Arla Foods Amba, Viby J (DK)
Filed by Arla Foods Amba, Viby J (DK)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,806.
Application 17/713,806 is a division of application No. 16/486,737, granted, now 11,324,229, previously published as PCT/EP2018/053665, filed on Feb. 14, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17156770 (EP), filed on Feb. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0225629 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A23C 21/02 (2006.01); A23C 21/06 (2006.01); A23C 21/10 (2006.01); A23J 3/08 (2006.01)

CPC A23C 21/02 (2013.01) [A23C 21/06 (2013.01); A23C 21/10 (2013.01); A23J 3/08 (2013.01)]

4 Claims

1. A high-protein, acidified, liquid dairy product:

comprising a total amount of whey protein of at least 4% (w/w) of which at least 30% is in the form of insoluble particles of denatured whey protein,

having volume weighted mean particle diameter, D[4.3], of at most 50 micron,

wherein at least 90% (w/w) of total protein is whey protein, and

having a weight ratio between total amount protein and total amount of Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ cations of at most 50, where the total amount of Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ cations is at least 300 mg/100 ml,

and having a pH of at most 5.5.