Stabilized thiamine composition and method of enriching food products

• US 2,912,332 A
• Filed: 02/27/1958
• Issued: 11/10/1959
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harland H. Young, Ramseyer Jr William Floyd
• Original Assignee: Harland H. Young, Ramseyer Jr William Floyd
• Inventors: Young, Harland H., RAMSEYER JR WILLIAM FLOYD
• Application Number:
  US03/717,842
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• US Class Current: 426/72
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 3/358 Inorganic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/15 Vitamins
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2200/22 Coating agent
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2200/224 Encapsulating agent
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/132 Sulphur dioxide
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/15 Inorganic Compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/154 Water
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/1592 Iron
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/204 Animal extracts
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/30 Other Organic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/51 Polysaccharide
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/54 Proteins
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/54246 Casein
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/5428 Egg protein
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/5432 Gelatine
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/628 Saccharose, sucrose
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/7042 Vitamin B1

Claims

1. A VITAMIN PREPARATION STABILIZED AGAINST DESTRUCTION OF VITAMIN POTENCY BY SULFUR DIOXIDE AND SOLUBLE SALTS OF SULFUROUS ACID COMPRISING:

A PROTEIN MATRIX CONTAINING THIAMINE DISPERSED THEREIN, SAID PROTEIN BEING MODIFIED BY AN INSOLUBILIZING AGENT, SAID PROTEIN ALSO CONTAINING AN ACCEPTOR FOR SULFUR DIOXIDE AND SOLUBLE SALTS OF SULFUROUS ACID.