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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jurg Loliger, Corseaux, CH;
Francoise Saucy, Blonay, CH;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A23D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426610 ; 252397 ; 514221 ; 514772 ; 554-2 ; 554-3 ; 554-4 ;
Abstract
A fat is protected from oxidation by, in one process embodiment, forming a mixture of tocopherol and lecithin at a temperature not greater than 60.degree. C., mixing ascorbic acid dissolved in a polar solvent into the tocopherol and lecithin mixture, eliminating the solvent from the mixture at a temperature not greater than 60.degree. C. and then, incorporating the mixture into a fat. In another embodiment, lecithin is added to a fat, and tocopherol and ascorbic acid dissolved in a polar solvent are added to the lecithin-added fat after which, the solvent is eliminated from the fat.