Patent ID: 6849288

Claim:
A process for preparing a high protein, low soluble-sugar, oil-containing soybean meal from raw soybeans, the process comprising: A. cleaning, sorting and drying the raw soybeans; B. dehulling the cleaned, sorted and dried soybeans; C. conditioning and flaking the dehulled soybeans; D. mechanically reducing the oil content of the flaked soybeans to produce a soybean oil product and a defatted cake; and E. extracting with ethanol soluble-sugars from the defatted cake to produce (i) a syrup product, and (ii) a cake product, the cake containing less than about 5 percent by weight soluble sugars; and F. fermenting the syrup product to ethanol, and using the ethanol in Step E to extract soluble-sugars flow the defatted cake.