SCHEDA BREVETTO

Abstract:

The invention relates to table olives enriched with probiotic microorganisms, in particular lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, food products containing them and a method for their preparation. The olives and food products of the invention provide an amount of microorganisms sufficient to exert a beneficial action on the gastro-intestinal tract and are particularly advantageous whenever administration of probotic food products of animal origin, in particular milk derivatives, is not possible.

Advantages:

However, dairy product consumption may be limited due to allergies or intolerances to milk and derivatives thereof. Also known is the difficulty of introducing bifidobacteria-largely used in probiotics-in fermented milk products, due to their strain-related sensibility to milk-fermenting bacteria, pH, temperature and oxygen concentration (Gobbetti M. etal.
It should also be pointed out that all the above-mentioned products must be consumed rapidly after opening.

Application field:

PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS;

FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT;

PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES;

MICRO-ORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS

Technical board:

The invention relates to table olives enriched with probiotic microorganisms, in particular lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, food products containing them and a method for their preparation.
[0008] The present invention relates to probiotic food products based on table olives containing probiotic bacteria.

Patent Title	Table olives containing probiotic microorganisms
Other Title	Olive da mensa contenenti microrganismi probiotici
Inventor(s)	LAVERMICOCCA PAOLA LONIGRO STELLA LISA MORELLI LORENZO VALERIO FRANCESCA
Published As	Publ. number Pub. date Appl. number Appl. date Publ. Stage ITMI20032391 20050606 2003IT-MI02391 20031205 A1 – Application fo patent of invention WO2005053430 20050616 2004WO-EP13582 20041130 A1 – International publication with international search report CA2546776 20050616 2004CA-2546776 20041130 A1 – Application laid open US2007086990 20070419 2004US-0581516 20041130 A1 – First published patent application JP2007512823 20070524 2006JP-0541866 20041130 A – Doc. laid open to publ. inspec. EP1843664 20071017 2004EP-0803365 20041130 A1 – Application published with search report DE602004021979 20090820 2004DE-60021979 20041130 D1 – Granted EP number in Bulletin ES2329800 20091201 2004ES-0803365 20041130 T3 – Translation of granted European patent (former B3)
NsRIF	1592 - Catalogo brevetti CNR
Country of validity	IT CA US JP DE ES PCT
Ownership	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (100%) – ISPA
Contacts	info@ilo-puglia.cnr.it