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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Niklaus Meister, Grosshoechstetten, CH;
Andreas Sutter, Le Mont-S/Lausanne, CH;
Martin Vikas, Konolfingen, CH;
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23C 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23C 1/04 ;
Abstract
A food composition containing live probiotic lactic acid bacteria is prepared by spraying a food composition containing water from one nozzle and spraying a probiotic lactic acid bacteria culture from a second nozzle into a device into which heated air is introduced for evaporating water from compositions sprayed into the device to dehydrate the compositions for obtaining a dehydrated product from the device and so that the dehydrated product recovered contains live probiotic lactic acid bacteria.