Abbott Laboratories Corporation

William T Malone

Ralph A Gygax

Paul A Pezzoli

Gary E Katz

Thomas D Loughrin

Joseph Michael Lippian

James N Chmura

Karin M Ostrom

Thomas W Osip

David R Wolf

Merlin D Breen

David F Berk

Julia A Byard

Todd A Huston

Henrietta Jonas

Disclosed are nutritional powders, including lactose-free powders or other oxidatively sensitive nutritional powders, comprising at least about 400 ppm by weight of ascorbyl palmitate, preferably in combination with at least about 300 ppm by weight of cystine, cysteine, or combinations thereof. It has been found that these powders, especially the lactose-free embodiments, have improved stability as measured by sensory performance and reduced vitamin A degradation during prolonged storage.

Stable nutritional powder containing ascorbyl palmitate

The use of fiber to control infantile colic and diarrhea and adult constipation and diarrhea is well accepted. This invention is specifically directed to liquid nutritional formulas which contain hydrolyzed protein and/or amino acids and dietary fiber. This invention overcomes the problems of product physical stability and high viscosities through the use of soluble/non-fermentable fibers in combination with a blend of insoluble/non-fermentable and soluble/fermentable fibers. The invention is also directed to the use of physiologically effective levels of fibers in nutritional products that use hydrolyzed protein and/or free amino acids for the source of amino nitrogen to treat colic, diarrhea, short gut syndrome and other gastrointestinal maladies.

Nuritional formula containing hydrolyzed protein and a fiber blend

There is disclosed a body for a retortable plastic container having a sidewall and bottom wall integrally formed as a single piece. The bottom wall has a heel portion and a recessed center portion. The heel has a resting surface and an inside corner. The recessed center portion has an outside corner. The container has an outside surface. The container is made in accordance with equations relating to reforming pressure and low fill equilibrium pressure and may be fabricated utilizing a variety of manufacturing modes since the providing of acceptable container configurations is not based on relative wall thicknesses.

Plastic container

Retortable high panel strength plastic containers have a recessed circular center portion in the bottom wall of the container which facilitates the volumetric changes in the container during a sterilization process. Examples of containers having this feature are disclosed as well as the cross-sectional profile of the recessed circular center portions of the bottom walls of the containers.

Plastic containers capable of surviving sterilization

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Columbus, OH, United States of America

William T Malone