Edible free-flowing plant-origin powder and a method for producing the same

Abstract

The present invention pertains to free flowing food additives powders comprising processed fruit juice being loaded on a plant-origin solid support.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING AND FIGURES

In order to understand the invention and to see how it may be implemented in practice, a plurality of preferred embodiments will now be described, by way of non-limiting example only, with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which

FIG. 1 discloses a method (10) for obtaining a plant powder in a process comprising a spray dryer; and,

FIG. 2 discloses an alternative method (20) for obtaining a plant powder in a process comprising a freeze dryer.

Claims

1. A biocompatible free-flowing plant-origin powder (FFPP), comprising processed fruit juice being loaded on a plant-origin solid support.

2. The powder according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the solid support is milled oil-extracted plant solids, seeds, stems or roots.

3. The product of claim 1, wherein said oil-extracted plant solid product comprises one or more ingredients selected from a group consisting of plant seed cake, fruit seed cake, plant seeds, fruit seeds, plant seeds powder and fruit seeds powder.

4. The powder according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the fruit juice is processed by a drying, squeezing, spray drying, freeze drying, extracting, fermenting or concentrating means.

5. The product of claim 4, wherein the fermented product comprises fermented juice or a fermentation mixture comprising plant peel, water, sugar and yeast, or any combination thereof.

6. The free-flowing plant-origin powder according to claim 1, comprising from about 1 to about 40% w/w of processed fruit juice.

7. The powder according to claim 1, wherein the fruit juice comprises any fruits, plants or derivatives thereof.

8. The powder according to claim 1, wherein plant seeds comprise apple seeds, grape seeds or a combination thereof.

9. A natural plant-origin powder rich inter alia of phenolic contents.

10. An FFPP according to claim 1, adapted to be utilized as a food, food ingredient, food supplement, food additive, nutraceutical, cosmetics, medicaments or pharmaceutics.

11. A method of producing an edible FFPP, comprising loading a slurry of processed fruit juice on a pre-treated plant-origin solid support.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the pre-treated plant-origin solid support is obtained by extracting a predetermined measure of oil from said plants' solids or milling the same.

13. The method according to claim 11, comprising the steps of drying pre-pressed seeds (1), pre-milling the same (2), milling (3), admixing the same in a diluted fermented plant juice (4), spray drying the obtained slurry (5) and packaging the obtained FFPP (6).

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the processed fruit juice is provided by operations selected from a group comprising drying, squeezing, spray drying, freeze drying, extracting, fermenting and/or concentrating a predetermined plant's slurry.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the fermenting process is provided by utilizing fermented juice or a fermentation mixture comprising plant peel, water, sugar and yeast, or any combination thereof.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the drying of the product is provided by freeze drying methods, so as the vitality of the fruit ingredients is maintained.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the plant is apple or grape.

18. The method according to claim 11, additionally comprising drying the homogenized slurry to produce an edible free-flowing plant-origin powder.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein the oil-extracted plant solid product comprises one or more ingredients selected from a group consisting of plant seed cake, fruit seed cake, plant seeds, fruit seeds, plant seeds powder, and fruit seeds powder.

20. The method according to claim 11, comprising admixing the fruit juice ingredient such that the humanized slurry comprising from about 5 to about 20% wlw of processed fruit juice.

21. The method according to claim 11, wherein the fruit juice ingredient comprises apple juice, grape juice or a mixture thereof.

22. The method according to claim 11, wherein plant solids comprise apple seeds, grape seeds or a combination thereof.

23. The method according to claim 11, wherein the edible free-flowing plant-origin powder product is rich of phenolic contents.

24. A method of producing FFPP food, food ingredient, food supplement, food additive, nutraceutical, cosmetics medicaments or pharmaceutics according to claim 11.

25. The method according to claim 11, additionally comprising extracting plant phenolics or other compositions from macerated plants, comprising: a. obtaining fruit juice and removing of a portion of the solid fruit material (rape or pomace);b. fermenting;c. concentrating said juice by distillation to provide a crude concentrate;d. pre-milling the carrier solids;e. milling the same;f. diluting the same with a fluid;g. admixing liquid portion with a milled carrier; and,h. spray drying the same to provide a solid concentrate of plant products.

26. The method according to claim 11, comprising the steps of drying pre-pressed seeds or intact seeds, milling, mixing the same with undiluted fermented plant juice so wet powder is obtained, cooling, freeze drying the same, disintegrating the powder and packaging the FFPP.

27. The method according to claim 11, comprising the steps of: a. obtaining fruit juice and removing the bulk of the solid fruit material (rape or pomace);b. fermenting the same;c. concentrating said juice by distillation to provide a crude concentrate; p1 d. milling the carrier solids;e. admixing liquid portion with a milled carrier and freeze drying the same to provide a solid concentrate of plant products; and,f. disintegrating the same.