The present invention relates to the food field. The invention provides a method for preparing a plant protein comprising food product with an improved property, said method comprising incubating a solution comprising a plant protein with phytase (to obtain a phytase-treated solution) and optionally processing the phytase-treated solution into a food product comprising a plant protein.

The invention relates to an edible oil-in-water emulsion comprising an fat phase, a water phase and a plant-based protein comprising an fat phase a water phase, and wherein the emulsion further comprises 0.01-10 wt. % of a plant-based-protein, the use of the emulsion a non-dairy containing a multipurpose cooking cream and or whipping cream.

Milk replacers include milk and non-milk proteins, and at least a portion of the non-milk protein is provided by textured soy protein. The textured soy protein is ground and extruded such that it is substantially free of anti-nutritional factors that are detrimental to young animal health or development. The milk replacers with textured soy proteins are fed to young animals, who demonstrate equal or improved performance compared to young animals fed milk replacers with the same amount of total protein and same amount of soy protein, but the soy protein is from other than textured soy protein.

Described are methods and/or techniques for the production of culinary nut extracts, which simultaneously result in extracts and non-dairy products with favorable organoleptic properties, tasty appearance and high yields of nutritionally useful components, and which may be performed in a simple, rapid and cost-effective manner. In addition, the described methods are capable of processing in-shell culinary nuts to make effective use of the high contents of bioactive materials present in shell material. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for processing culinary nuts, comprising the steps of: a) adding water to culinary nuts to form a suspension; b) wet grinding said suspension in one or more steps to an average particle size of less than 100 μm; and c) separating the suspension into at least a solid phase comprising culinary nut solids and a liquid phase comprising culinary nut milk. Furthermore, a nut milk, edible nut-based products comprising the solid phase obtained by the aforementioned method or the nut milk, as well as nut oil extracts are disclosed.

An objective of the present invention is to solve protein deficiency of elderly people who tend to fail to take sufficient protein only from their daily diet, by providing a plant protein-containing high-protein foamable oil-in-water emulsion used in bread, confectionery, and others. The present invention has been accomplished by finding that a plant protein-containing high-protein foamable oil-in-water emulsion which includes 3 to 15% by weight of plant protein can be obtained by containing 25 to 35% by weight of fats and oils constituting the foamable oil-in-water emulsion, in which fats and oils having a slip melting point of 33° C. or lower is 50% by weight or more of the entire fats and oils.

Provided are nutritional compositions having a non-soy-based plant protein component that includes chia proteins, hemp proteins, or combinations thereof. Further disclosed are nutritional composition having a non-soy-based plant protein source that includes chia proteins in combination with hemp proteins and free amino acids. The nutritional compositions disclosed are suitable for administration to human subjects, such as infants.

Provided herein are protein-enriched pongamia compositions, including pongamia protein concentrates and isolates, suitable for animal consumption, in particular human consumption. Provided herein are also various food and beverage products that can be fortified with such protein-enriched pongamia compositions. Provided herein are also methods of producing the protein-enriched pongamia compositions, as well as methods of producing such protein-enriched pongamia compositions from pongamia beans or various forms of pongamia meal.

A process for preparing a pumpkin seed milk or beverage is described, while keeping controlled seed dehydration conditions that maintain the color, flavor and, especially, the nutrients of the pumpkin seeds, that leverages most of the seeds, facilitates milling and provides high yield. Furthermore, the furnace and mill specifically designed to carry out the process for preparing the pumpkin seed beverage are described.

The present invention relates generally to the field of liquid food compositions. In particular, the present invention relates to liquid food compositions that contain no added sugar and that can be used as dairy alternatives. Dairy alternatives usually do not comprise dairy proteins. For example, such dairy alternatives may comprise alternative protein sources. The liquid food composition of the present invention contains pea protein. Hence, the present invention relates, for example, to a liquid food composition comprising pea protein isolate, sunflower oil, gellan gum, tribasic calcium phosphate, inulin, dipotassium phosphate, and water, wherein the liquid food composition does not comprise dairy proteins or added sugar.

Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, compositions with functional proteins, protein combinations and methods for the preparation thereof.