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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Herbert Hottinger, Blonay, CH;
Peter Niederberger, Epalinges, CH;
David Pridmore, Pully, CH;
Ursula Staeger-Roos, Cheong Ju, KR;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
43525421 ; 4353201 ; 536 237 ; 426 62 ;
Abstract
Ice nucleation is promoted in an ingestible biological material by treating the material with an ice-nucleating protein carried by a yeast or lactococcal GRAS microorganism, or a fraction thereof, transformed by a plasmid vector carrying a gene coding for the ice-nucleating protein.