Patent ID: 7951493

Claim:
A process for preparing a food product comprising: (a) admixing a nutritive base with a first amount of at least one long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid; (b) cooking the resulting admixture at a temperature not less than about 50° C. to produce a food composition; (c) adding to the food composition a second amount of at least one oxidatively protected long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid; and (d) packaging the resulting composition in a container having an oxygen depleted environment to provide the food product; wherein the first and second amounts of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid(s) specified in steps (a) and (c) provide in total a bioeffective amount of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid(s); and wherein step (c) is performed after steps (a) and (b) are completed and step (d) is performed after step (c) is completed.