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Isolated Milk Phospholipids and MFGM
TS-045170 — Process for isolating and producing a high milk phospholipid ingredient from a by-product of the dairy industry, also commonly known as Milk Fat Globule Membrane (MFGM).
Milk phospholipds are in demand in the food industry because they promote good gut health and cognitive development in adults and infants. Currently, phospholipids can be extracted from a high fat fraction of milk sweet whey. Unlike the sweet whey from natural cheese manufacturing, the acid whey f…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Jimenez-Flores, Rafael; Ortega-Anaya, Joana
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Antimicrobials to Control Campylobacter
TS-044474 — Campylobacter is a leading cause of foodborne disease in humans, affecting more than one million Americans each year. Campylobacteriosis is projected to remain one of the most-frequent causes of disease and death worldwide. Human infection primarily occurs by ingesting contaminated chicken, and tr…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Rajashekara, Gireesh; Acuna, Ulyana Munoz; Antwi, Janet; Carcache de Blanco, Esperanza; Fuchs, James; Kumar, Anand; Nislow, Corey; Pascall, Melvin
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Novel Foam Collector for Bioreactors
TS-039273 — A foam collector to be used with bioreactors that would target and remove secondary metabolites produced and held within foam that is a product of the chemical reactions conducted.
Certain chemical reactions conducted in bioreactors, like aerobic fermentation, can produce a persistent foam that fills the headspace of the reactor vessels in which the reaction is taking place. This foam can be removed by introducing surface agents, but this is extremely undesirable as these ag…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Yousef, Ahmed; Kasler, David
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Nonthermal inactivation of microorganisms using combination of shear and electric fields
TS-037864 — A method to inactivate microorganisms in a fluid without degrading certain properties, by using both mechanical shearing and electric fields.
The US FDA requires all manufactures to subject juice products to a 5-log reduction in the number of the most resistant pathogens. Currently, the most widely used method to inactivate pathogenic bacteria from foods and biological fluids involves the application of heat. However, the food industry …
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Sastry, Sudhir; Heskitt, Brian; Mok, Jin Hong; Pyatkovskyy, Taras; Yousef, Ahmed
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Use of Pyranoanthocyanins as a Stable Natural Colorant
TS-036818 — A stable natural colorant derived from fruit and vegetable pigments, with enhanced resistance to bleaching for food applications.
Anthocyanins are pigments in fruits and vegetables that have application as a natural colorant in foods. Their use in juices and beverages, currently the largest market for synthetic dyes in the food industry, is limited due to the fortification of Vitamin C which results in rapid color loss, know…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Farr, Jacob; Giusti, M. Monica "Monica"
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Automating the quantification of color space parameters from Visible Spectrum Absorbance
TS-036603 — Verbal communication of color is challenging, therefore mathematically-standardized color spaces are used. ColorBySpectra is software that in one click can convert large sets of absorbance data obtained from a simple spectrophotometer into color spaces: Hunter Lab, CIEL*c*h* and CIEL*a*b*. It reduces time for data collection, and sample volume and equipment needs. The software is useable on multiple platforms and would be useful in food science or other industries interested in precise color information.
There are several commonly used color spaces that quantify perceived color which include Hunter Lab, CIELab, and CIELch. To obtain these values, samples are usually presented to a colorimeter one sample at a time. Obtaining color data can be time consuming for many samples, and special equipment d…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Farr, Jacob; Giusti, M. Monica "Monica"
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Black Goji Anthocyanins for Natural Food Colorant
TS-034593 — Extracted anthocyanins from Black Goji fruits (Lycium ruthenicum Murr) that can be used in the food industry as a potential source of natural color in a wide pH range.
Americans spend about 90 percent of their food budget on processed foods, almost all of which contain a plethora of additives. One of the most frequently used food additives is artificial coloring, and in the past synthetic food colorants were most popular. Increasingly however, public demand has …
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Giusti, M. Monica "Monica"; Tang, Peipei
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

Jet-Mixing Reactor for ZIF Nanomaterial Synthesis Using Stoichiometric Amounts of Reactants
TS-031211 — A method for the continuous and high yield synthesis of ZIF nanomaterials (<100 nm) using stoichiometric amounts of reactants with a jet-mix reactor.
A zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) is a type of metal-organic framework (MOF) that can be used as a catalyst in membranes and for gas adsorption applications. These porous structures can be exposed to high temperatures and can remain stable after boiling in water or solvents, which makes them …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Brunelli, Nicholas "Nick"; Parulkar, Aamena
  • Licensing Officer: Bartell, Cordellia

Paired Lewis Acid Site Zeolite Catalysts for the Selective Conversion of Glucose to Fructose
TS-030928 — A zeolite catalyst with a unique chemical structure that utilizes paired Lewis acid sites to increase the catalytic selectivity for the isomerization of glucose and other sugars into fructose.
Fructose is a key compound in the food and fermentation industries that is typically produced via the enzymatic isomerization of glucose. The enzymes used to efficiently convert glucose to fructose are expensive to manufacture and sensitive to processing conditions. An alternative approach is to d…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Brunelli, Nicholas "Nick"; Deshpande, Nitish; Parulkar, Aamena
  • Licensing Officer: Bartell, Cordellia

Simple Suppers: An Educational Cooking and Nutrition Curriculum for Limited-Resource Families
TS-015226 — An extensive collection of inexpensive, well-balanced meals with an accompanying series of lessons packed with fun activities to advance nutritional knowledge and family engagement.
Food insecurity within a household is directly associated with a family’s lack of available resources. Low-income families can often find it difficult to provide enough food, which can cause a reduction in food consumption, disruptive eating patterns, or other unhealthy eating habits. When f…
  • College: College of Education & Human Ecology
  • Inventors: Gunther, Carolyn; Kennel, Julie; Rogers, Catherine "Katy"
  • Licensing Officer: Flammang, Ann Marie

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