Fortified Milk-Based Nutritional Compositions

• US 20120269929A1
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC)
• Inventors: LIPPMAN, HUGH, GAYGADZHIEV, ZAFIR, O'RISKY, LINDA, WEIR, CATHY
• Application Number:
  US13/092,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20120269929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/71
• CPC Class Codes: A23C 9/20 Dietetic milk products not covered by groups A23C9/12 - A23C9/18
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 29/32 Processes or apparatus for dissolving of sugars dissolving or refining raw sugar C13B30/14
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/12 Fatty acids or derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/19 Dairy proteins
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/40 Complete food formulations for specific consumer groups or specific purposes, e.g. infant formula
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/1868 Docosahexaenoic acid
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/28 Oligosaccharides
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/606 Fructose
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/612 Lactose

Abstract

A nutritional composition which includes up to about 5.5 g/100 kcal of a fat or lipid source; up to about 6 g/100 kcal of a protein source; and a source of carbohydrates such that the nutritional composition has up to about 18 g/100 kcal of total carbohydrates, wherein at least 60% of the total carbohydrates comprises fructose, lactose or combinations thereof.

Claims

1. A milk-based nutritional composition comprising:

a) a fat or lipid source present at a level up to 5.5 g/100 kcal;

b) a bovine milk protein source present at a level of up to about 6 g/100 kcal; and

c) a source of carbohydrates, such that the nutritional composition comprises up to about 18 g/100 kcal of total carbohydrates, wherein at least 60% of the total carbohydrates comprises fructose and lactose.

2. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the total carbohydrates comprises at least about 10% by weight fructose.

3. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the total carbohydrates comprises at least about 60% by weight lactose.

4. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the combined amount of fructose and lactose present in the total carbohydrates is at least about 70% by weight.

5. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the total lactose in the nutritional composition is from about 6.0 g/100 kcal to about 11.7 g/100 kcal.

6. The nutritional composition according to claim 16, wherein the added lactose is from about 0.8 g/100 kcal to about 5.4 g/100 kcal.

7. The nutritional composition according to claim 5, wherein fructose is present in the nutritional composition at a level of up to about 3.6 g/100 kcal.

8. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, which comprises from about 11.5 g/100 kcal to about 16 g/100 kcal total carbohydrates, and further wherein lactose is present in the nutritional composition at a level of from about 6.5 g/100 kcal to about 11.2 g/100 kcal and fructose is present in the nutritional composition at a level of from about 1.4 g/100 kcal to about 3.2 g/100 kcal.

9. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the nutritional composition contains no added sucrose.

10. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the nutritional composition is a growing up milk.

11. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the nutritional composition further comprises a source of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.

12. The nutritional composition according to claim 11, wherein the source of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids comprises docosahexanoic acid.

13. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, which further comprises at least one prebiotic at a level of from about 0.1 g/100 kcal to about 2 g/100 kcal.

14. The nutritional composition according to claim 13, wherein the at least one prebiotic comprises galacto-oligosaccharide, polydextrose, inulin, fructo-oligosaccharide or combinations thereof.

15. The nutritional composition according to claim 1, wherein the nutritional composition has a glycemic index of less than about 60.

16. The nutritional composition according to claim 5, wherein the total lactose comprises endogenous lactose, added lactose or combinations thereof.