Process for encapsulating natural follistatin
AssigneeDeutsches Institut FüR Lebensmitteltechnik E.V.
InventorsVolker Lammers, Volker Heinz, Aleksandar Pajic, Matthias Rumker von Hoven, Carolin Bommes
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Abstract
A process for the production of fat-encapsulated follistatin. The process includes steps of a) metering fat having a melting point of at least 40° C. into an extruder, b) heating the fat in the extruder during rotation of the at least one screw, c) metering the follistatin into the extruder barrel to produce a flowable mixture, d) cooling the flowable mixture in a downstream adjacent section of the extruder barrel, e) subsequently discharging the mixture through an extruder die, and f) comminuting the mixture after it discharges from the extruder die.
Claims16
A process for producing fat-encapsulated follistatin, the process comprising the steps of
- a) metering fat having a melting point of at least 40° C. into an extruder,
- b) heating the fat to a melting temperature of the fat in the extruder during rotation of a screw of the extruder,
- c) metering follistatin into an extruder barrel of the extruder to mix with the fat at the melting temperature of the fat and produce a flowable mixture of the follistatin and the fat,
- d) cooling the flowable mixture in a downstream adjacent section of the extruder barrel to a temperature of at least 10 K below the melting temperature of the fat to form a cooled mixture,
- e) subsequently discharging the cooled mixture through an extruder die, and
- f) comminuting the cooled mixture after discharge from the extruder die to produce pellets of fat-encapsulated follistatin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.