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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426656 ; 426478 ; 426490 ; 426629 ; 210641 ; 210650 ; 210651 ; 210653 ; 530376 ; 530414 ;
Abstract
An improved corn wet milling process is disclosed, in which gluten is recovered from steepwater by membrane filtration and is incorporated in a corn gluten meal product. The process can include the steps of steeping corn kernels in an aqueous solution, thereby producing steep water which contains gluten protein; membrane filtration of the steep water, thereby producing a retentate which has a higher concentration of the gluten protein than the original steep water; reducing the water content of the retentate; and incorporating the remaining retentate into a corn gluten meal product.