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Article: Study results from Department of Agriculture provide new insights into food science.
- Article from:
- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- February 19, 2009
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"Use of meat and bone meal (MBM) in animal feed has been progressively restricted. Production of an MBM protein isolate would facilitate the development of new applications," scientists in the United States report.
"Rational design of a process to produce such an isolate requires knowledge of MBM protein distribution and characteristics. MBM consists of varying proportions of bone and soft tissue particles, but the soft tissue particles contain > 80% of the protein. Under mild conditions only a small portion of MBM protein can be solubilized; the most aggressive non-hydrolytic conditions fail to solubilize > 55% of the protein. Amino acid analysis reveals that ...