Patent ID: 7608289

Claim:
Milk comprising a camitine selected from the group consisting of L-camitine, acetyl L-camitine, propionyl L-camitine, a mixture thereof, and a pharmacologically acceptable salt of the camitine, in an effective amount of from 400 mg to 9,000 mg/L or mg/kg of milk to stimulate upon ingestion, through the natural fatty acid metabolic processes that take place in a consumer of said food, the synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids from the saturated fatty acids originally contained in the food wherein the milk is the integral product of a complete, uninterrupted milking of a healthy, well nourished milk-bearing female, obtained by manual or mechanical milking and is selected from cow's milk, delactosed milk, condensed milk, cow-buffalo's milk, goat's milk or sheep's milk.