US 7,550,162 B2
	Labiatae herb extracts and hop extracts for extending the color life and inhibiting the growth of microorganisms in fresh meat, fish and poultry
Donald R. Berdahl, Lawton, Mich. (US); Gregory S. Reynhout, Kalamazoo, Mich. (US); and Mark H. Schulze, Kalamazoo, Mich. (US)
Assigned to Kalsec Incorporated, Kalamazoo, Mich. (US)
Appl. No. 10/469,366 PCT Filed Jul. 13, 2001, PCT No. PCT/US01/22532 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 13, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO02/069741, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 12, 2002.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/273185, filed on Mar. 02, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2004/0131709 A1, Jul. 08, 2004
Int. Cl. A61K 36/53 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 424—745

26 Claims

1. A food selected from the group consisting of fresh meat, poultry and fish comprising a combination of a rosemary herb extract which is essentially free of the native essential oil and is an antioxidant which contains a rosemary herb acid selected from the group consisting of carnosic acid, carnosol and rosmarinic acid, and a hop extract containing beta acids, wherein the weight ratio of the beta acids to the rosemary herb acid present in the food is between about 0.5 and about 13, and wherein the hops beta acids are present in the food in an amount between 50-300 ppm.