Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for A Synbiotic Millet Milk-Based Curd Enriched With Steamed Banana Puree And A Process For The Preparation Thereof

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641093300 A) filed by Dr. Jayalaxmi Baddi; Ms. Vijaya Priya S; Dr. David E Henry; Dr. A. C. Lokesh; Dr. Rajadurai Murugan; and Dr. Lokesh Ravi on July 31, 2026, for A Synbiotic Millet Milk-Based Curd Enriched With Steamed Banana Puree And A Process For The Preparation Thereof.

Inventors include Dr. Jayalaxmi Baddi; Ms. Vijaya Priya S; Dr. David E Henry; Dr. A. C. Lokesh; Dr. Rajadurai Murugan; and Dr. Lokesh Ravi.

The application for the patent was published on August 07, 2026, under issue no. 32/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION Title: A SYNBIOTIC MILLET-MILK-BASED CURD ENRICHED WITH STEAMED BANANA PUREE AND A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF The invention relates to a synbiotic millet-milk-based fermented curd enriched with steamed banana puree, and to a process for the preparation thereof. Millet grain (finger millet or sorghum) (101) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) (102) are soaked in a 3:1 ratio for 8 hours and co-germinated for 8 to 12 hours; the co-germinated grains are blended with water in a 1:4 ratio and the millet milk is extracted through a triple-layer muslin-cloth filtration (107); pasteurised bovine milk (103) is blended with the extracted millet milk in equal proportion; a homogenised banana puree (104) prepared from banana (Robusta Musa acuminata) steamed with peel for 5 to 10 minutes is incorporated at 40 % w/w pre-fermentation, both as a sensory enhancer and as a native-food-matrix prebiotic fructan carrier, apart from being a natural sweetener rendering it needless for added sugar; 5 % w/w of a lactic-acid-bacteria starter culture is inoculated at 45 °C and the mixture is fermented for 3 to 4 hours; and the fermented curd is refrigerated at 4 °C to set. The resulting synbiotic curd exhibits an overall 9-point-hedonic-scale acceptability score in excess of 7.8 materially exceeding a commercially available reference product, a proximate composition delivering substantially 180 mg calcium and 2.26 g protein per 100 g, and a bile-salt-tolerant viable-probiotic burden of substantially 2.15 × 10^12 CFU/ml. surviving simulated gastric transit. Number of Claims: 5 Number of Drawings: 3

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