Brewer's Spent Grain Blending for Uniform Nutrient and Flavor Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
The brewing industry faces challenges in producing uniform brewer's spent grain (BSG) products due to variations in nutritional composition, flavor, and color from different breweries and beer production types, making it difficult to upscale and customize BSG-based food products reliably and efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a system with receptacles containing BSG, a database for nutrient, flavor, and color information, and controlled delivery devices to create uniform mixtures based on user inputs, allowing for the combination of BSG from different sources to achieve specific nutritional, flavor, and color profiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If BSG from multiple different breweries and beer types is used, then the availability and scalability of BSG supply is improved, but the uniformity of nutritional composition, flavor, and color deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments BSG from different breweries and beer types into separate batches, each characterized and stored individually. This allows the system to maintain the diversity of sources while controlling the mixing process to achieve uniformity in the final product.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of BSG batches by mixing them in controlled proportions. By adjusting the composition ratios of different BSG batches, the system achieves a final product with uniform nutritional composition, flavor, and color despite using diverse sources.
2Stability of the object's composition
If BSG from a single brewery is used, then the uniformity of nutritional composition, flavor, and color is improved, but the scalability and reliability of supply deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a composite BSG product by combining multiple BSG batches from different sources. This composite approach maintains supply reliability and scalability by diversifying sources while using controlled mixing to achieve uniformity in the final product's nutritional composition, flavor, and color.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses database storage and retrieval of BSG characteristics to provide feedback control. By continuously monitoring and adjusting the composition of mixed BSG batches based on stored characterization data, the system maintains uniformity while utilizing multiple supply sources.
3Adaptability or versatility
If BSG batches with different characteristics are mixed without control, then the availability of BSG sources is improved, but the manufacturing precision of uniform BSG products deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary characterization of each BSG batch by determining nutritional composition, flavor, and color properties before mixing. This advance preparation and data collection enable precise control of the mixing process to achieve the desired uniformity in the final product.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces uncontrolled mechanical mixing with a controlled mixing process guided by database retrieval and computer control. This substitution of controlled systems for manual or uncontrolled processes enables precise achievement of target composition, flavor, and color in the final BSG product.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a mixture of brewer's spent grain having a composition corresponding to a requested user input. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for preparing uniform mixtures of brewer's spent grain from different compositions of brewer's spent grain having different nutrient content, flavour and colour, and said uniform mixture of brewer's spent grain corresponds to a user request. Further, the present invention relates to a mixture of brewer's spent grain and use of the mixture of brewer's spent grain in food products.