Plain, flavored or nutritionally fortified donkey milk powders and an integrated method for the production there of

摘要

In this invention it is claimed a novel and economic combination of known processes allowing for the production of finished products which have got as a major constituent donkey's milk powder. This way three respective products a) plain powder; b) flavored powder; c) nutritionally fortified powder with improved caloric value, aiming at serving specific nutritional needs of certain population target groups, such as adults with specific diet requirements, elderly people and infants, respectively. A novel and economic combination of: 1) ceramic tubular microfiltration through membranes with pores sizes 0.7 µm-1.4 µm to sanitize the milk 2) reverse osmosis or nanofiltration to concentrate the sanitized milk at low temperature 3) optional addition of aroma and/or high quality extra virgin olive oil by encapsulation in milk proteins and 4) as a final step freeze drying, of the plain or nutritional fortified and/or flavored concentrated milk in order to produce microbiologically stable dry powder products.