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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
N. V. Nutricia, Zoetermeer, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/00 ; A23I 3/00 ; A23D 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/00 ; A23I 3/00 ; A23D 7/00 ;
Abstract
A thymus growth stimulating baby food is provided, substantially composed of a fat component, as well as a carbohydrate component and a protein component of animal or vegetable or animal and vegetable but not human origin, whereby the protein component is composed of intact proteins, hydrolyzed proteins, peptides or the constituents thereof, or of amino acids or a mixture thereof not bound to peptides or proteins. This type of baby food is characterized in that the total amount of arginine is at least 3.7 g per 100 g of the amino acids present in toto, and that it contains zinc (calculated as elementary zinc) in an amount of at least 40 mg per 100 g of the amino acids present in toto.