Methods and systems of producing nutritional supplement from microbial cells

Abstract

A method of producing a nutritional supplement from microbial cells. The method includes cultivating microbial cells to obtain a biomass; incubating the biomass with a heat treatment at temperature from 55° C. up to 80° C. for an incubation time from 10 minutes up to 60 minutes; concentrating the biomass by separating and removing a liquid phase from a solid phase to obtain a dry matter content from 2% up to 40% of total weight of the nutritional supplement. Disclosed also is a system of producing a nutritional supplement from microbial cells using the aforementioned method. The system includes a bioreactor; a heat-exchanger and a separator for carrying out the respective steps of the aforementioned method. Reference is made to the Identification of the Microorganism, with the identification reference given by the Depositor SoF1, having the Accession number given by the INTERNATIONAL DEPOSITORY AUTHORITY, VTT E-193585, received on Jun. 11, 2019

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