Patent ID: 6890548

Claim:
A method of producing a rumen bypass fat and choline supplement, the method comprising: (a) blending about 40 to 90 parts by weight fat, about 1 to 10 parts by weight of an emulsifier, selected from the group consisting of soybean lecithin and fatty acid esters of polyhydric alcohols with at least one free hydroxyl group and a sufficient quantity of a choline compound such that the blend contains about 1 to 20 parts by weight of choline compound; (b) adding about 5 to 20 parts by weight water to form an emulsion; (c) adding about 5 to 20 parts by weight of a Group II metal compound to the emulsion to form a reaction mixture and to initiate a salt formation reaction; (d) stirring the reaction mixture until it forms a hardened mass; (e) cooling the hardened mass to a temperature below about 100° F.; and (f) grinding the hardened mass into small particles.