Process for encapsulating natural follistatin
AssigneeDeutsches Institut FüR Lebensmitteltechnik E.V.
InventorsVolker Lammers, Volker Heinz, Aleksandar Pajic, Matthias Rumker von Hõven, Carolin Bommes
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Abstract
A process for the production of fat-encapsulated follistatin. The process includes metering fat having a melting point of at least 40° C. into an extruder, heating the fat in the extruder during rotation of the at least one screw, metering the follistatin into the extruder barrel to produce a flowable mixture, cooling the flowable mixture in a downstream adjacent section of the extruder barrel, subsequently discharging the mixture through an extruder die, and 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, preferably to at least the melting temperature of 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 to a temperature lying in a range of at least 10 K below the melting temperature of the mixture,
- e) subsequently discharging the mixture through an extruder die,
- f) comminuting the mixture after discharge from the extruder die to produce pellets,
- g) optionally subsequently drying the pellets, e.g. until the surface is dry, preferably at a temperature below the melting temperature of the fat.
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