Patent ID: 11896031
Assignee: THE SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTS, AS GOVERNING BOARD FOR SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of producing a protein concentrate from a distillery/brewery or milling by-product and/or portions thereof comprising:
a. (i) forming a mash from the distillery/brewery by-product or (ii) forming a mash from the milling by-product, and optionally adding one or more hydrolyzing enzymes;
b. transferring the mash to a bioreactor;
c. inoculating the mash in the bioreactor with at least one microbe;
d. recovering the inoculated material via hydrodynamic force;
e. separating the resulting supernatant and solids; and
f. drying said solids,
wherein the resulting protein concentrate comprises proteins, microbes, and exopolysaccharides and has a higher protein content than the distillery/brewery or milling by-product not exposed to said process steps.