- Patent Title: Extensional viscosity to promote safe swallowing of food boluses
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Application No.: US14002052Application Date: 2012-03-01
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Publication No.: US10583097B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Adam Stewart Burbidge , Jan Engmann , Simina Popa Nita
- Applicant: Adam Stewart Burbidge , Jan Engmann , Simina Popa Nita
- Applicant Address: CH Vevey
- Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
- Current Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: CH Vevey
- Agency: K&L Gates LLP
- Priority: EP11193803 20111215
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/053533 WO 20120301
- International Announcement: WO2012/117065 WO 20120907
- Main IPC: A61K47/36
- IPC: A61K47/36 ; A61K47/46 ; A61K36/00 ; A61K36/33 ; A61K31/07 ; A61K31/122 ; A61K31/375 ; A61K31/7048 ; A61K33/00 ; A61K35/741 ; A61K35/744 ; A61K35/747 ; A23L29/25 ; A23L29/206 ; A23L33/00 ; A23L29/238 ; A61K36/815 ; A61K35/00
Abstract:
Nutritional products having improved cohesiveness of food boluses and methods of making and using same are provided. The nutritional products may include nutritional compositions and high molecular weight, water-soluble polymers such that the nutritional products have extensional viscosities that provide improved cohesiveness to the nutritional products and Trouton ratios of at least 6. Methods of administering such nutritional products to patients having impaired swallowing ability and/or dysphagia are also provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140294787A1 EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY TO PROMOTE SAFE SWALLOWING OF FOOD BOLUSES Public/Granted day:2014-10-02
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