Fermented Blackcurrant Pomace Feed for Livestock Growth
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current feeds used in the livestock and fish culture industries, which incorporate blackcurrant fruit to promote growth and prevent diseases, face challenges due to the fat-burning effects of anthocyanins, leading to insufficient weight gain and environmental concerns related to petroleum-derived methionine production.
Innovation Solution
A feed using fermented blackcurrant pomace, processed with microorganisms like Aspergillus and Bifidobacterium, which increases the bioavailability of amino acids like methionine and reduces anthocyanin's fat-burning effects, thereby enhancing weight gain and disease prevention without relying on petroleum resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If blackcurrant fruit is added to feed to promote growth, then growth promoting effect is achieved, but fat burning effect of anthocyanins reduces weight gain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes anthocyanins from blackcurrant fruit through water extraction processes, eliminating the fat-burning components while retaining other growth-promoting substances. This resolves the contradiction by separating the harmful fat-burning effect from the beneficial growth promotion effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters of blackcurrant fruit by removing anthocyanins through extraction, thereby altering the metabolic effects on animals. This transforms the feed from having dual effects (growth promotion + fat burning) to having only the desired growth promotion effect without weight loss.
2Weight of moving object
If methionine is added to feed to increase body weight, then growth effect is achieved, but petroleum-derived production creates environmental burden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables blackcurrant fruit itself to serve as the source of methionine through natural fermentation processes. Instead of adding external petroleum-derived methionine, the system uses the fruit's own biochemical resources, eliminated the need for external supplementation and creating a self-sustaining growth promotion system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent recovers and utilizes methionine naturally present in blackcurrant fruit that would otherwise be wasted during fruit processing. By fermenting and extracting components from the fruit, the system recovers amino acids including methionine, converting waste material into valuable growth-promoting nutrients.
3Reliability
If antibiotics are used to prevent diseases, then disease prevention effect is achieved, but drug resistance and adverse effects on human body occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces long-term antibiotic use with fermented fruit components that provide temporary but effective disease prevention. The fermented blackcurrant fruit acts as a disposable, natural alternative that prevents viral and bacterial diseases without creating persistent drug resistance, offering a sustainable replacement for antibiotics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces fermented fruit components as an intermediary substance between the animal body and pathogens. These fermented components act as natural antimicrobial agents that prevent diseases through biochemical mechanisms rather than direct antibiotic action, avoiding the development of drug resistance while maintaining disease prevention efficacy.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The fermented blackcurrant feed significantly promotes weight gain and offers improved disease prevention, while reducing environmental impact and production costs by utilizing otherwise discarded pomace, with a more efficient production method that does not depend on petroleum resources.
Implementation Method 1
The fermented blackcurrant fruit may have been fermented by at least one species selected from the group consisting of species of Aspergillus, Bifidobacterium, Penicillium, Chrysosporium, Trichoderma, Acremonium, Candida, Mucor, Rhizopus, Monascus and Absidia
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AI summary
A feed which has a stronger effect of increasing the body weight of an organism to be raised than a conventional product, a production method thereof and a raising method using the feed are provided. A feed containing fermented blackcurrant fruit is used. As the blackcurrant fruit, for example, pomace which remains after pressing for juice can be used, and fermented blackcurrant obtained using an Aspergillus species can be used preferably.