Patent ID: 8974843
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: A23J,A23L

Abstract:
1. A method of reducing a mTOR pathway stimulating activity of an amino acid or protein containing nutritional material, said method comprising: treating said nutritional material with a plurality of enzymes that together are capable of converting or degrading leucine mTOR pathway stimulating amino acids or amino acid residues in said nutritional material into one or more alternate chemical entities that do not stimulate said mTOR pathway, while preserving the quantities of other non-mTOR stimulating amino acids present in said nutritional material, thereby producing enzyme treated nutritional material; wherein said plurality of enzymes comprise three enzymes comprising both leucine endopeptidase and carboxypeptidase enzymes with at least one of leucine transaminase or L-leucine-dehydrogenase enzyme; using said enzyme treated nutritional material for consumption by an adult human as part of a diet.