Church Dwight & Co., Inc.

Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center

Donald L Palmquist

Kenneth R Cummings

Thomas C Jenkins

A cow milk product with enhanced nutritional and health values for human consumption, obtained from cows fed with a feedstock having a supplement containing at least about 60 weight percent of calcium oleate, which product has milk fat with a profile of fat constituents including about 1-3.5 weight percent of conjugated linoleic acid, about 2-6 weight percent of trans-11 18:1 fatty acid, about 20-30 weight percent of cis-9 18:1 fatty acid, and about 30-38 weight percent of 14:0 and 16:0 fatty acid, per total milk fat, and wherein the 18:1 to 18:0 fatty acid ratio in the milk fat is about 2-3.2:1.

Cow milk with enhanced nutritive and health values

A process and composition for supplying fatty acids to ruminants comprising feeding the fatty acids to the ruminants in the form of their calcium salts. The calcium salts may be added to conventional cattle feed preferably in an amount not exceeding about 5% of the dry solids content of the feed.

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Wooster, OH, United States of America

Donald L Palmquist