Patent ID: 9592201
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A23D,A23L,A23V,A61K,A61P

Claim:
1. An encapsulated therapeutic or nutritional agent that is the product of a process comprising the steps of: (A) treating a water-insoluble resistant starch to increase the number of sugar reducing groups in the resulting treated starch, wherein the treating is selected from the group consisting of heating, extrusion, high pressure processing, microfluidisation, and ultrasonication; (B) forming a dispersion of a film-forming protein and the treated starch in an aqueous phase, wherein the dispersion has a protein:starch ratio of from about 1:1 to about 1:2; (C) heating the dispersion to induce formation of Maillard reaction products; (D) mixing a storage-unstable therapeutic or nutritional agent with the dispersion to form a mixture; and then (E) homogenizing the mixture to obtain an agent-in-water emulsion, wherein the treated starch and the film-forming protein encapsulate the agent with a protective shell, which shell allows release of the agent in the gastrointestinal tract.