Compositions, processes of production, sterilization, and health-promoting uses of lyophilized milk

Abstract

The present invention provides novel oral dosage comprising lyophilized mammalian (human) milk and optionally a physiologically acceptable excipient or carrier, and their use for improvement of mammalian (human) health. Also provided a novel process for preparing lyophilized mammalian milk with desired nutritional and cellular content, initially freezing raw milk obtained from a mammalian source, forming a layer of a predefined thickness from the frozen milk at a temperature from −4° C. to −80° C., and drying the formed layer at a temperature from −20° C. to +60° C. at a pressure from 5 micron Hg to atmospheric pressure to provide the lyophilized human milk. The process optionally comprises comprising treating said lyophilized milk via flash supercritical COtreatment comprising soaking said lyophilized milk with supercritical CO