1706results about "Protein composition from vegetable seeds" patented technology

The present invention provides transgenic soybean event MON87769, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for said soybean event in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of said soybean event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said soybean event in a sample, growing the seeds of such soybean event into soybean plants, and breeding to produce soybean plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event.

A soy protein product, which may be an isolate, produces transparent heat-stable solutions at low pH values and is useful for the fortification of soft drinks and sports drinks without precipitation of protein. The soy protein product is obtained by extracting a soy protein source material with an aqueous calcium salt solution to form an aqueous soy protein solution, separating the aqueous soy protein solution from residual soy protein source, adjusting the pH of the aqueous soy protein solution to a pH of about 1.5 to about 4.4 to produce an acidified clear soy protein solution, which may be dried, following optional concentration and diafiltration, to provide the soy protein product.

The invention provides a transgenic Glycine max event MON87751, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising event MON87751. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON87751, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides for event MON87751. The invention also provides methods related to event MON87751.

Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment enhances cellulase availability in cellulose conversion and allows for the determination of optimized pretreatment conditions. Additionally, ethanol yields from a Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation process are improved 5-25% by treatment with a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein. Thus, a more efficient and economical method of processing lignin containing biomass materials utilizes a polypeptide/protein treatment step that effectively blocks lignin binding of cellulase.

Oil seed protein isolates, in particular canola protein isolate, having a decreased phytic acid content is prepared by a procedure in which extraction of phytic acid from oil seed meal is inhibited during extraction of protein from the oil seed meal.

A process for the fractionation of valuable fractions from cereal brans (e.g. wheat, barley and oat brans, and rice polish) is described. In particular, this invention describes a two step process, in which the said bran is first subjected to a combination of enzymatic treatment and wet milling, followed by sequential centrifugation and ultrafiltration, which aims at physically separating the main bran factions, i.e. insoluble phase (pericarp and aleurone layer), germ-rich fraction, residual endosperm fraction and soluble sugars. A second step consists of fractionating cereal brans substantially free of soluble compounds, hence insoluble phase from the above-mentioned first step, by enzymatic treatment with xylanases and/or beta-glucanase and wet milling, followed by sequential centrifugation and ultrafiltration, which aims at physically separating the main fractions, i.e. insoluble phase (remaining cell wall components), protein-rich fraction, soluble hemicellulose and oligosaccharide, and therefore maximizes the extraction rate of valuable cell wall components and aleurone cells from previously cleaned bran.

Polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.

The present disclosure relates to an aqueous process for the preparation of a protein isolate and a hydrolyzed protein concentrate from an oilseed meal, optionally comprising:

• • mixing an oilseed meal with an aqueous solvent to form a slurry;

optionally treating the slurry with phytase y;

separating the slurry with a solid/liquid separation to form:

• a liquid phase, comprising the aqueous solvent, soluble protein and oil; and
• a solid phase comprising insoluble protein;

separating the liquid phase to form:

• an oil phase; and
• an aqueous protein phase;

subjecting the aqueous protein phase to membrane filtration to obtain a protein solution; and drying the protein solution to obtain the protein isolate

subjecting the insoluble protein to enzymatic hydrolysis, and

subjecting the hydrolyzed protein to membrane filtration to obtain an amino acid and peptide solution; and drying the amino acid and peptide solution to obtain the hydrolyzed protein concentrate.

A soy protein product, which may be an isolate, produces transparent heat-stable solutions at low pH values and is useful for the fortification of soft drinks and sports drinks without precipitation of protein. The soy protein product is obtained by extracting a soy protein source material with an aqueous calcium salt solution to form an aqueous soy protein solution, separating the aqueous soy protein solution from residual soy protein source, adjusting the pH of the aqueous soy protein solution to a pH of about 1.5 to about 4.4 to produce an acidified clear soy protein solution, which may be dried, following optional concentration and diafiltration, to provide the soy protein product.

An adhesive composition made by reacting a soy protein with at least one compound under conditions sufficient for introducing additional phenolic hydroxyl functional groups, amine functional groups, and/or thiol functional groups into the soy protein structure.

The present invention concerns a granulated powder comprising at least one vegetable protein and at least one starch hydrolyzate, characterized in that it has a laser volume average diameter D4,3 of between 10 μm and 500 μm, preferably between 50 μm and 350 μm, and even more preferably between 70 μm and 250 μm, and a dry matter content, determined after stoving at 130° C. for 2 hours, of greater than 80%, preferably greater than 85%, and even more preferably greater than 90%.

The present invention also concerns process for manufacturing this granulated powder its use in various industrial field, and more particularly in the food-processing field, where it is used as a functional agent such as an emulsifying, overrun, stabilizing, thickening and/or gelling agent, in particular for totally or partially replacing certain animal proteins in the preparation of food products.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a walnut peptide powder, which effectively embodies a plurality of biological functional properties of the walnut peptide powder, reserves a plurality of nutritional components of walnuts. The polypeptide content in the walnut peptide powder is 60-80 percent, while the walnut peptide powder is light yellow or yellow-white color and has functions of anti-fatigue and antioxidation, etc. The invention comprises the following operation steps: crushing the walnut cakes before extracting the walnut protein, then carrying out enzymatic hydrolysis and centrifugation to the crude walnut protein to acquire the supernatant, dialyzing the supernatant and removing impurities and macromolecular compounds, and then concentrating the acquired dialysate, and at last vacuum drying to prepare the walnut peptide powder and packing into finished products.

In the recovery of canola protein isolates from canola oil seeds steps are taken to inhibit the formation of colouring components and to reduce the presence of materials tending to form colouring components, to obtain a lighter and less yellow canola protein isolate.

The invention provides an intermediate test method for extracting oil and hydrolyzed protein from peanut by a water enzyme method, which belongs to the technical field of the application of biological technique in food industry. In the method, the peanut is used as a raw material, single alkali protease is used for enzymolysis, a three-phase separator is used to separate oil, oil-water mixture and insoluble residue simultaneously, a disc-type centrifuge is used to further separate the oil-water mixture so as to obtain emulsion and hydrolysate, wherein the emulsion is subjected to freezing, thawing and emulsion breaking to obtain emulsion breaking oil, and the hydrolysate is subjected to spray drying to obtain peanut hydrolyzed protein powder. The invention provides a better process for industrializing the method of extracting oil and hydrolyzed protein by the water enzyme method, and has the advantages of simple technological line and high utilization rate of products.

A pharmaceutical composition is provided comprising a vehicle that comprises (a) an amphipathic oil that is water dispersible and ethanol insoluble, (b) microcrystalline wax, and (c) a pharmaceutically acceptable non-aqueous carrier; and having an antibacterial substance in an antibacterially effective amount stably dispersed in the vehicle. The composition is suitable for administration by intramammary infusion to a milk producing animal for treatment and/or prevention of mastitis or other diseases of the udder, as well as for otic administration for treatment and/or prevention of an ear infection.

Corn oil and corn meal obtained from corn are included in useful products. A method for producing fermentation-based products comprises combining corn meal with water and an enzyme, and mixing the combination with a micro-organism capable of fermenting a carbon source to produce a fermentation-based product. The corn meal is produced by cracking whole corn, conditioning the whole corn and extracting the whole corn to produce corn meal without flaking the corn during processing. The corn grain process generally includes the steps of cracking corn grain having a total oil content of from about 3% by weight to about 30% by weight and extracting a corn oil from the cracked corn grain.

A process for preparation of nutritionally upgraded oilseed meals which are protein and lipid-rich and have a reduced fiber content, and plant oils from oilseeds for use in fish or other non-human animal diets or human foods comprising the steps of: providing a source of oilseed; subjecting the oilseed to heat treatment to substantially reduce the concentration of at least some antinutritional components normally present in the oilseed to obtain heat-treated seed; dehulling the heat-treated seed to produce a meat fraction, a hull fraction or a mixture thereof; and cold pressing the meat fraction or the mixture to yeild the plant oils and the protein and lipid-rich meals.

The present invention provides a method for processing defatted oil seeds, comprising the steps of: (a) solubilizing at least a portion of the protein contained in the oil seeds to produce suspended residual solids and a first solution comprising protein, phenolic-protein complexes, and free phenolic compounds; (b) separating at least a portion of the free phenolic compounds from the first solution and recovering a free phenolic reduced solution; and (c) treating the free phenolic reduced solution to precipitate at least a portion of the protein as a precipitated protein isolate and recovering a treated solution containing a soluble protein isolate. Novel protein products are also disclosed. Food and drink products containing the novel protein products are also disclosed.

The present invention describes a bio-based process to produce high quality protein concentrate (HQPC) by converting plant derived celluloses into bioavailable protein via aerobic incubation, including the use of such HQPC so produced as a nutrient, including use as a fish meal replacement in aquaculture diets.

This invention relates to a method for the separation of oil, protein, carbohydrates, shell, and minor toxic components from seeds. The oil seed is subjected to a dehulling process to separate out the hull and kernel and the dehulled oil seed is then compressed into flakes under low temperature. The oil seed is then dephenolized and undergo low temperature delintion. In addition, direct hydrolyzation of the oil-complex is carried out. This technology can be used to produce high quality oil and obtain hydrolyzed protein, thereby comprehensively utilizing the oil seed.

The invention discloses a walnut low molecular weight polypeptide and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: hydrolyzing walnut albumen powder through a high static pressure technique combined with a biological enzyme; decoloring and adsorbing to remove bitter substances in the walnut low molecular weight polypeptide, and then preparing the walnut low molecular weight polypeptide with high purity, good quality and high low molecular weight peptide proportion; and directly packaging or carrying out freeze drying to obtain the finished walnut low molecular weight polypeptide product. The walnut low molecular weight polypeptide disclosed by the invention can be widely applied to medicine raw materials, medicaments, food, health care products, foodadditives and the like. By using the method disclosed by the invention, the hydrolysis degree of protein is improved so that the proportion of the walnut low molecular weight polypeptide is improved,thereby being more beneficial to the absorption and utilization of walnut polypeptide, enhancing the nutrition and health care effects of walnut and improving the product additional value of walnut. Thus, the walnut low molecular weight polypeptide has a good market application prospect.

Disclosed is a process for fractionating soybean protein into 7S globulin, 11S globulin or a lipophilic protein at a high purity with good efficiency, which relates to a fractionation technique for soybean protein into proteins having characteristic properties (7S globulin, 11S globulin and a lipophilic protein) and which is a process practicable at a food industrial level. It is found that soybean protein can be fractionated into 7S globulin, 11S globulin or a lipophilic protein at a high purity with good efficiency by extracting soybean milk from processed soybean which has been subjected to a water-insolubilization treatment specific to a desired protein and fractionating the resulting soybean milk or soybean curd refuse into the desired protein.

A process for the fractionation of oilseed cakes and meals (e.g. rapeseed cake, soybean meal, and cottonseed cake) is disclosed. This invention describes a fractionation process, in which the said cake or meal is subjected to enzymatic treatment with polysaccharidases with intermittent wet milling, followed by heat treatment to facilitate separation of insoluble from soluble phase by centrifugal forces. Sequential centrifugation and ultrafiltration steps are carried out in order to yield a fibre-rich fraction, at least three protein-rich fractions, in the case of oilseed cakes at leas one emulsified oil fraction, a sugar-rich fraction, and a phytate-rich fraction. This invention also describes the use of the above-mentioned fractions in food, feed, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications.