A high-protein/high-energy fruit dessert is as effective as milk-based oral nutritional supplement to increase blood leucinemia in older women.

Abstract

Rationale: Sarcopenia contributes to frailty and loss of autonomy and results from a decreased anabolic action of meals due to a loss of skeletal muscle sensitivity to dietary amino acids in elderly. Several strategies are based on optimizing the quantity and quality of protein intake. Whey with fast digestion and absorption rates has proven to be very effective, but such proteins properties are considerably reduced when these ones are added to a complex food matrix. The REMUS project aims at developing a novel matrix containing a rapid and vectorized milk protein to potentiate the bioavailability of amino acids in the elderly regardless product texture.