METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROLYSED KERATINACEOUS MATERIAL

• Main Authors: FILLIERES, Romain, BELMANS, Marc, MAERTENS, Faye, BOERS, Frank, ROGIERS, Joeri
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Hungarian
• Published: 28.08.2019
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DERIVATIVES OF NATURAL MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHATIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; WORKING-UP PROTEINS FOR FOODSTUFFS

The method of the invention comprises the production of highly digestible hydrolysed keratinaceous material comprising the steps of (i) partly hydrolysing keratinaceous material with heat and pressure and (ii) optionally drying the resultant partially hydrolysed material comprising at least partly insoluble material and (iii) subjecting the optionally dried partially hydrolysed keratinaceous material to a chemical hydrolysis step with acid or base to obtain a highly digestible hydrolysed material, and (iv) purifying the highly digestible material. The invention further provides highly digestible keratinaceous material with an amino acid composition reflecting the amino acid composition of the raw material, wherein the amount of de-carboxylated amino acids is less than 500 ppm. Preferably all of the highly digestible material has a molecular weight lower than 10000 dalton, and preferably more than 95 wt% of the highly digestible keratinaceous material has a molecular weight of less than 5000 dalton.