06.01.03
VSL Pharmaceuticals, Gaithersburg, MD, has received U.S. patent No. 6,544,568 for a prebiotic and probiotic food composition. The patent relates to a functional health food in the form of a baked good comprising a non-baked fat-based composition and a baked part, characterized in that the fat-based composition is water-free and comprises live lyophilized lactic bacteria and in that the baked part comprises one or more non-digestible fiber-like substances.