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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marnix P van Amerongen, Vlaardingen, NL;
Lourus Cornelis Lievense, Valinhos, BR;
Assignee:
Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426601 ; 426611 ; 552544 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a fat based food product comprising natural fat components which have a blood cholesterol lowering effect in amounts sufficient to obtain a blood cholesterol lowering effect, wherein the fat comprises at least 1% of a sterol composition which comprises sterols of which at least 40% is esterified with fatty acid esters.