Patent ID: 7833554

Claim:
A pharmaceutical composition comprising: 0.1% to 20% by weight of an avocado peptide extract, 0.001% to 30% by weight of mannoheptulose and/or perseitol, and an appropriate excipient, wherein the avocado peptide extract is obtained by a process comprising the following steps: a) obtaining an avocado cake by drying and removing oil from avocado fruit; b) cryogrinding and total delipidation of said cake, followed by decantation, centrifugation and collection of the cake; c) hydrolyzing the collected avocado cake in the presence of glucanases, followed by centrifugation and discarding of a soluble fraction formed thereby; d) hydrolyzing the glucanase hydrolyzed cake in the presence of one or several proteases, followed by centrifugation and discarding of residue formed thereby to provide a peptide phase; e) concentrating the peptide phase by nanofiltration; and f) simple filtrating (10 um), followed by ultrafiltrating (cutoff limit 10 kD).