Patent ID: 8414945
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: A23L,A23V

Abstract:
1. A wet grinding method for producing readily wettable sterol formulations, comprising: a) providing an additive dispersion or solution in water or an aqueous suspension medium, said additive being selected from the group consisting of proteins, protein-containing auxiliaries, carbohydrates, cellulose derivatives, sugar alcohols, fruit concentrates and vegetable concentrates, b) adding free sterol particles and/or stanol particles having a median particle size of at least 1 mm to form a sterol/stanol particle dispersion, c) homogenizing and comminuting said sterol/stanol particle dispersion in a mill which operates by the rotor-stator principle, and d) drying to obtain formulations in the form of a powder, with the proviso that the free sterol particles and/or stanol particles in the readily wettable sterol formulations have a particle size distribution D