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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1992
Joseph G Endres, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Janet C Smith, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Charles W Monagle, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Consolidated Nutrition, L.C., Omaha, NE (US);
Abstract
Vegetable meal compositions having high-rumen bypass potentials for use in the feeding of ruminant animals, and a method for producing the compositions are claimed. The claimed compositions comprise a protein meal and low levels of zinc ions, with the zinc ions being present in an amount sufficient to provide about 0.003-0.008 parts zinc ions per part of protein in the meal. The composition has a rumen bypass potential, as measured by the 'Percent of Total Protein that is Available and Undegraded', or '% AUN', of not less than about 30. The method for producing the composition comprises treating the meals with low levels of zinc ions and heating the mixture under moist heat conditions.