Patent ID: 11889850
Assignee: AGRISOMA BIOSCIENCES INC.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  C | IPC A  C

Claim 0:
1. An animal feed additive comprising a meal fraction produced from Brassica carinata oilseed, wherein said meal fraction comprises less than 20 μmol total glucosinolates per gram of meal and is produced by a process comprising:
obtaining Brassica carinata oilseed comprising between about 60 and about 100 μmol total glucosinolates per gram of oilseed in which sinigrin constitutes more than 90% of the total glucosinolate content of the Brassica carinata oilseed;
pressing the Brassica carinata oilseed to produce oilseed flakes;
cooking the oilseed flakes at a temperature in the range of 105° C. to 120° C. for a period of 10 to 100 minutes;
pressing the cooked oilseed flakes to remove oil from the oilseed flakes, thereby producing an oil fraction and a meal fraction;
treating the meal fraction with hexane to extract residual oil;
desolventizing-toasting the hexane-extracted meal fraction to remove residual hexane for a period of greater than 1 hour but less than 5 hours;
drying the meal fraction to a moisture content of 12% or less, and recovering a meal fraction of Brassica carinatahaving a total glucosinolates content of less than 20 μmol per gram of meal.