Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd

Ramot University Authority for Applied Research and Industrial

Korsnas Aktiebolag

Gan Shmuel Foods Ltd.

Yuval Shoham

Eugene Rosenberg

Michael Shemer

Yuval Katzir

Eli Budman

Noa Lavid

Fruit juices, purees, and other food products are provided for the healthy-product market. A part of the available sugars in the fruit products is converted to non digestible polymers, thereby lowering the energetic content and simultaneously increasing the nutritional value by forming prebiotic components in the product stables in juices. Further provided is a method of manufacturing juices and purees, enabling to preserve all components but sugars naturally occurring in the fruit.

Fruit juice and puree with a lowered amount of available sugars

The invention relates to a preparation exhibiting enzymatic activity, which preparation has the capability of delignifying wood pulp at a temperature of at least 65.degree. C. and a pH of at least 9. Further, the invention relates to a method of producing said preparation by aerobically fermentating a selected Bacillus stearothermophilus strain. Furthermore, the invention relates to two isolated Bacillus stearothermophilus strains and mutants and variants thereof. The invention also relates to applications of the preparation of the invention, namely to a process comprising treatment of wood pulp with a preparation according to the invention, and a wood pulp and a fluff pulp treated with a preparation according to the invention, and also a paper, a board and a fluff made from a wood pulp treated with a preparation according to the invention.

Preparation exhibiting enzymatic activity, a method of producing the

.alpha.-L-arabinofuranosidase and xylanase from Bacillus

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Haifa, Israel

Yuval Shoham