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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8137950 | Bacteriophage resistant lactic acid bacteria A lactic acid bacterium (LAB) wherein an YjaE protein is essentially inactive and the LAB thereby get improved resistance to bacteriophages, a starter culture composition comprising the lactic acid bacterium and use of this starter culture manufacturing a food or fe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8021883 | Antibiotic-sensitive lactic acid bacteria strains Many probiotic Bifidobacteriacea contains an active tetW that renders the cells resistant to tetracycline. This may present a risk of a horizontal transfer of functional antibiotic genes. The present invention relates to a method of obtaining novel tetracycline-sens... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7892583 | Initiation of fermentation The present invention discloses microbial organisms capable of fermenting malic acid to lactic acid having impaired capability of degrading citric acid. These microbial organisms are for example useful in methods of preferentially degrading malic acid over citric ac... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7776581 | Method of producing an aspartic protease in a recombinant host organism A polypeptide comprising an aspartic protease such as chymosin which is modified so as to comprise at least one —N—X-T-glycosylation site and a method for producing such a polypeptide. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7732184 | Liquid starter cultures having an improved storage stability and use thereof Liquid microbial starter culture that retains its initial metabolic activity during storage for extended periods of time. Such liquid starter cultures are useful in the manufacturing of food and feed products. Starter cultures of the invention include culture of lac... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7718171 | Reducing heart rate in mammals using milk derived fermentation products produced using Use of a composition obtainable by a process comprising fermenting a food material, comprising animal milk or vegetable proteins, with a lactic acid bacterium to obtain a fermented food material which comprises active components with heart rate reducing properties f... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7491507 | Process for preparing peptides with anti-hypertensive properties Use of a lactic acid bacterium comprising a cell wall proteinase of around 200 kDa to prepare peptides with anti-hypertensive properties and a method for obtaining such a lactic acid bacterium. ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7358083 | Food-grade cloning vector and their use in lactic acid bacteria Novel food-grade cloning vectors comprising a nonsense mutation suppressor-encoding gene, which vector, when it is present in a lactic acid bacterial strain, permits such a strain to have an industrially appropriate growth rate and metabolic activity. The cloning ve... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7309610 | On-line monitoring and/or control of headspace in a fluid bed reactor system The present invention relates to dynamically controlling the expansion of a fluid bed reactor system. By mounting a density detector to a floating body that floats on top of the carrying medium in the fluid bed, one can detect the density at a certain position that ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7270989 | Method of producing non-bovine chymosin and use hereof A method of recombinantly producing a non-bovine pre-prochymosin, prochymosin or chymosin derived from ruminant species including deer species, buffalo species, antelope species, giraffe species, ovine species and caprine species; Camelidae species such as Camelu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7112346 | Method of inducing malolactic fermentation in wine or fruit juice by direct inoculation with a non-activated started culture A selected malolactically active Ln. oenos strain which is useful for inducing malolactic fermentation in wine or fruit juice by the direct inoculation of a concentrate of a starter culture containing the strain, the strain having a survival rate of at least ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7018664 | Method and apparatus for preparing a dairy product A novel method and apparatus are disclosed for the manufacturing of dairy products. Also dairy products prepared by means of the disclosed method are comprised by the invention. The novel method makes use of preactivated cultures and results in a reduction of produc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6942881 | Purification process for improving total yield of curcuminoid coloring agent The present invention pertains to a process of improving the total yield of curcuminoids from curcuminoid-containing material. More specifically, there is provided a process wherein a second residue, previously considered a waste resulting from a crystallisation ste... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6881430 | Food coloring substances and method for their preparation A process for modifying the taste and/or odor properties of a food coloring substance having unpleasant taste and/or odor properties is disclosed. There is also provided a process for obtaining a blue non-bleeding color that seems approvable by most health authoriti... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6548089 | Dairy starter culture delivery system and use hereof A delivery system for introduction of a starter culture directly into a dairy process line, comprising a sealed enclosure having outlet means for connecting the enclosure to the process line, the sealed enclosure containing the starter culture and/or milk... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6500473 | Coloring substance composition and a method of manufacturing same A composition comprising coloring substance bodies that are at least partially coated with beet pectin, chicory pectin and/or Jerusalem artichoke pectin or other pectin types having a high degree of acetylation. The composition which may be water dispersi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6127142 | Microbially derived enzymes having enhanced milk clotting activity and method of producing same A method of producing a milk clotting enzyme including the steps of (a) fermenting a strain of Rhizomucor miehei or Aspergillus oryzae to form a fermentation product having a glycoslated Rhizomucor miehei aspartic protease and other proteins, and (b) subj... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5607854 | Composition for inducing malolactic fermentation using Leuconostoc oenos strains accession numbers DSM 7008-DSM 7015 A method of inducing malolactic fermentation in wine or fruit juice by the direct inoculation of a concentrate of a starter culture containing a selected malolactically active bacterial strain or strains having the accession no. DSM 7008, DSM 7009, DSM 70... | 03/04/1997 |
