Inventors:
Steven Freedman - Chestnut Hill MA, US
Deborah A. DaSilva - Sount Easton MA, US
Assignee:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. - Boston MA
International Classification:
A61K 38/46, A61K 38/47, A61K 38/48, C12N 9/20, C12N 9/26, C12N 9/48, A61P 1/14
US Classification:
424 9461, 424 946, 424 9463, 435198, 435201, 435212
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to novel food products, e.g., nutritional food products and infant formula, which contain one ore more enzymes selected from lipase, protease, and amylase that have been formulated/stabilized to have sustained stability in an aqueous medium. Such formulations are intended to provide a greater degree of compliance based on their ability to be incorporated into aqueous media while avoiding unstable breakdown of the enzyme and large overdosing due to expected breakdown when exposed to an aqueous environment, including saliva. Further described in the invention are additives packaged with instructions for combination with an aqueous medium, and instructions for the administration of the resulting mixture to a subject. In certain embodiments, enzyme insufficient patients, e.g., infants and elderly persons, would find particular benefit from the food products described herein.