Patent ID: 7226624

Claim:
A nutraceutical preparation for ingestion in the human body derived entirely and solely from almond hulls, said almond hulls comprising fiber, water soluble sugars, and water soluble, nutraceuticals as ingredients, said water soluble nutraceuticals being present in said preparation in the same concentration relative to each other as they were in the almond hulls from which they were extracted, and with the same chemical identity as they had while in the almond hulls, some of said water soluble nutraceuticals having pharmacological effects in the human body, alone or in combination with other of said water soluble nutraceuticals, said nutraceutical preparation being derived from almond hulls by the following process: a. subjecting said almond hulls to aqueous extraction to produce a water extract containing said water soluble sugars and water soluble nutraceuticals, accompanied by said fibers; b. separating said fibers from said water extract; c. adding to said water extract a sufficient quantity of a yeast of a type which consumes said water soluble sugars without substantial effect on the chemical identity, or on the amount of, or on the relative concentration of said water soluble nutraceuticals, and permitting said water extract and yeast to ferment so that substantially all of said soluble sugars are consumed by the yeast and yeast solids are produced by the yeast; d. removing said yeast solids, whereby to produce an aqueous treated extract containing said nutraceutical preparation; and e. removing a substantial portion of the water from said treated extract to provide said nutraceutical preparation in the form of an extract tolerable to a human being.