A Process for Prepared a Beverage or Beverage Component, Beverage or Beverage Component Prepared by Such Process, and Use of Brewer's Spent Grains for Preparing Such Beverage or Beverage Component
OwnerJorge Gil-Martinez, Elke Arendtinventors
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Abstract
A process for preparing a beverage or beverage component can have the following steps. Providing brewer's spent grain occurs. Then, performing a saccharification by enzymatic treatment of the brewer's spent grain and a fermentation of the saccharified brewer's spent grain with lactic acid bacteria and/or acetic acid bacteria and/or probiotics obtains a fermented broth. Filtering the fermented broth and collecting the permeate obtains the beverage or beverage component. Homogenizing the fermented broth is performed to obtain the beverage or beverage component.
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A process for preparing a beverage or beverage component comprising the steps of:
- Providing brewer's spent grain;
- performing saccharification by enzymatic treatment of the brewer's spent grain and a fermentation of the saccharified brewer's spent grain with lactic acid bacteria and/or acetic acid bacteria and/or probiotics to obtain a fermented broth;
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- homogenizing the fermented broth to obtain the beverage or beverage component.
A beverage or beverage component obtained by fermentation of brewer's spent grain, the beverage or beverage component comprising proteins in a level sufficiently high such that at least 12% and preferably at least 20% of the total caloric value of the beverage or beverage component originates from proteins therein.
The use of a lactic acid bacteria, preferably of the specie Lactobacillus plantarum and/or Lactobacillus rhamnosus, more preferably the strain Lactobacillus plantarum F10 and/or Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG®), for fermenting brewer's spent grain in the preparation of a beverage or beverage component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.