Nestec S.a.

Martin Vikas

Niklaus Meister

Armand Malnoe

Kurt Eyer

Mathilde Fleith

Jurg Aebischer

Anne-Lise Carrie

Edward Fern

Andreas Sutter

David De Pasquale

A food composition containing live probiotic lactic acid bacteria is prepared by spraying a food composition containing water from one nozzle and spraying a probiotic lactic acid bacteria culture from a second nozzle into a device into which heated air is introduced for evaporating water from compositions sprayed into the device to dehydrate the compositions for obtaining a dehydrated product from the device and so that the dehydrated product recovered contains live probiotic lactic acid bacteria.

Process for obtaining a dehydrated food composition containing live probiotic lactic acid bacteria

A concentrated milk-base composition which includes stabilizing salt, sugar and flavoring agent components is prepared for flavoring a beverage, particularly for flavoring a coffee or tea beverage. The composition is prepared by mixing and homogenizing a milk fat with skimmed milk to obtain a milk base, subjecting the milk base to evaporation to obtain a concentrated milk base, homogenizing the concentrated milk base, cooling the homogenized milk base, adding a stabilizing salt and sucrose in dry form, and in one embodiment, a flavorant agent is added also to the cooled milk base and then the composition is heated to sterilize it, the sterilized composition is homogenized and then is filled in a package, and in another embodiment, a flavorant composition is added aseptically to the sterilized composition before homogenizing.

Preparation of a concentrated-milk-base flavoring agent

Spray-drying process in which a composition of microorganisms beneficial for human health is prepared and then reduced to a powder by spraying in a spray-drying device having a heated air inlet temperature of 200-400.degree. C. and an air outlet temperature of 40-90.degree. C., the residence time of the composition in the device being adjusted so as to obtain at least 1% survival of the microorganisms after drying.

Spray-drying process

A milk having a formulated lipid composition wherein the lipids are lipids of lactic and vegetable origin which are, by weight, (i) from 30% to 40% milk fat lipids, (ii) from 30% to 40% of a first oil substance which have an oleic acid content in an amount greater than 60%, and (iii) from 1% to 30% of oil substance which provide n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and so that triglyceride fatty acids of the lipids comprise 20% to 40% saturated fatty acids of lactic origin, 35% to 60% monounsaturated fatty acids, and 15% to 30% of n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated in a ratio of n-6 to n-3 fatty acids of from 5:1 to 10:1.

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Konolfingen, Switzerland

Martin Vikas