Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product with added vitamin or derivative thereof for... – Vitamin is a or d
Reexamination Certificate
2010-04-13
2011-11-08
Sheikh, Humera (Department: 1789)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product with added vitamin or derivative thereof for...
Vitamin is a or d
C426S072000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08053007
ABSTRACT:
The described invention provides a method to determine a standard equivalent unit of nutrition in one serving of a weighted composition comprising a basket of fruits and vegetables representing at least 85% of all fruits and vegetables consumed in a defined geographical area; a method to fortify a base food so that the base food contains a standard equivalent unit of nutrition present in at least one serving comprising (i) at least one fruit; (ii) at least one vegetable, or (iii) at least one fruit and at least one vegetable; and a nutritional supplement or food additive comprising a set of nutritive components wherein the set of nutritive components provides at least one standard equivalent unit of nutrition present in one serving of a composition comprising at least one fruit and at least one vegetable.
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George Patricia
Greenberg & Traurig, LLP
Innocenzi Mark
Lubit Beverly W.
Sheikh Humera
LandOfFree
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