A new and useful method of simultaneously producing and granulating
composite materials for simultaneous internal delivery of high amounts of
calcium and phosphate to a subject (person or animal) is provided. Such a
method entails the dropwise addition of concentrated phosphoric acid
within a specified amount of water into a vessel containing a powdered
material of lime and/or calcium carbonate, with the lime and/or calcium
carbonate present in an excessive amount of the phosphoric acid, with
subsequent, mixing, drying, milling, and sieving to provide the correct
target particle size range for the resultant granulated materials. Such
specifically produced granulated calcium carbonate/dicalcium phosphate
materials exhibit very high available calcium levels, very high available
phosphate levels, excellent flow characteristics, and very high
capability for compression into tablets. Products including such
particularly produced composite materials are also encompassed within
this invention.