Method for obtaining products for the food industry and/or feed industry from insects, and solid phase obtained from insects
AssigneeGEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH
InventorsStefan Kirchner, Dirk Sindermann, Jörg Heidhues
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method for obtaining products for the food industry and/or feed industry from insects at the larval stage involves: a) comminuting the insects to form an insect pulp; b) shifting the pH-value of the insect pulp to an acid range by adding an acid and malaxing the insect pulp for a period of at least 45 minutes; and c) fractioning the insect pulp using centrifugal treatment into at least two fractions i) a solid fraction, ii) a fatty phase; and a fat-reduced solid phase.
Claims19
A method for obtaining products of the food industry and/or feed industry from insects in a larval stage, the method comprising:
- a) killing the insects by heating the insects, mixed with water prior to crushing the insects, and wherein a temperature of the water in which the insects are carried is greater than 60° C. during killing, and wherein killed insects are separated from the water prior to crushing the killed insects;
- b) comminuting the killed insects to form an insect pulp;
- c) shifting a pH-value of the insect pulp to an acidic range by adding an acid and malaxing the insect pulp for at least 45 minutes;
- and
- d) fractioning the insect pulp by centrifugal processing into at least two fractions, which include i) a solid phase and ii) a fatty phase,
- wherein the no additional enzymes are employed during the method.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.