US 11,985,998 B2
Process for preparing infant formula using a static mixer
Joep Van Den Brenk, Den Bosch (NL); Koen Cornelis Van Dijke, Leusden (NL); and Raoul Charles Johan Moonen, Amersfoort (NL)
Assigned to N. V. NUTRICIA, Zoetermeer (NL)
Appl. No. 14/917,988
Filed by N. V. NUTRICIA, Zoetermeer (NL)
PCT Filed Sep. 11, 2014, PCT No. PCT/EP2014/069359
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 10, 2016,
PCT Pub. No. WO2015/036466, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/EP2013/069070 (WO), filed on Sep. 13, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2016/0278413 A1, Sep. 29, 2016
Int. Cl. A23L 33/10 (2016.01); A23D 7/005 (2006.01); A23D 9/05 (2006.01); A23L 33/00 (2016.01); A23L 33/115 (2016.01); A23L 33/15 (2016.01); A23L 33/16 (2016.01); A23L 33/19 (2016.01); A23L 33/21 (2016.01); A23L 35/00 (2016.01)
CPC A23L 33/10 (2016.08) [A23D 7/0053 (2013.01); A23D 9/05 (2013.01); A23L 33/115 (2016.08); A23L 33/15 (2016.08); A23L 33/16 (2016.08); A23L 33/19 (2016.08); A23L 33/21 (2016.08); A23L 33/40 (2016.08); A23L 35/10 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
2. A process preparing lipid and protein component-containing composition selected from a group consisting of an infant, a follow-on formula, and a growing up milk, the composition including lipid globules, the process comprising:
a) providing an aqueous phase with a dry matter content of 30 to 50 wt. % (based on total weight of the aqueous phase), which includes at least one protein component;
b) providing a liquid lipid phase, which includes at least one lipid; and
c) mixing the lipid phase with the aqueous phase in ratio of 5 to 50% (w/w) at a pressure of no greater than 10 bar using a static mixer so as to obtain a lipid and protein component-containing composition with lipid globules, wherein the lipid globules have a volume-weighted mode diameter of less than 15 μm,
wherein the process does not include the use of a dynamic high pressure homogeniser or a dynamic high pressure homogenization step.