In some examples, a system may be configured to generating flour having a uniform particle size of less than 100 Microns from whole insects. For example, the may include generating a slurry from whole insects by adding water while blending the whole insects using one or more mixers to generate an insect slurry. In some cases, the water is added to the insect parts to reduce the viscosity and to assist in separating the whole insects into parts. In some cases, the insect slurry may be filtered.

The invention proposes a method for the production of a porous powder product containing a microorganism, from a liquid concentrate comprising at least one liquid microorganism culture and a carrier composition, the carrier composition comprising at least one carbohydrate and at least one protein, the method comprising the steps of: i) preparing the liquid concentrate to have both a temperature of between and 40° C. and a viscosity greater than 150 mPa.Math.s; ii) injecting a food grade gas into the prepared concentrate at a pressure greater than 0.3 MPa to intimately incorporate the gas into the liquid concentrate and form a stable foam with a density of between about 0.6 to about 1.2 kg/l; iii) conveying the foam to an atomizing device wherein the pressure of the foam is reduced from 0.3 MPa to atmospheric pressure to provide a partially dried product; and iv) exposing the partially dried product to a drying media to reduce both the moisture content to less than 5% moisture and the water activity to less than 0.25 A.sub.w, when measured at 20° C., and to provide the porous powder product, wherein the temperature of the porous powder product in step (iv) does not exceed 50° C.

The invention proposes a method for the production of a porous powder product containing a microorganism, from a liquid concentrate comprising at least one liquid microorganism culture and a carrier composition, the carrier composition comprising at least one carbohydrate and at least one protein, the method comprising the steps of: i) preparing the liquid concentrate to have both a temperature of between and 40° C. and a viscosity greater than 150 mPa.Math.s; ii) injecting a food grade gas into the prepared concentrate at a pressure greater than 0.3 MPa to intimately incorporate the gas into the liquid concentrate and form a stable foam with a density of between about 0.6 to about 1.2 kg/l; iii) conveying the foam to an atomizing device wherein the pressure of the foam is reduced from 0.3 MPa to atmospheric pressure to provide a partially dried product; and iv) exposing the partially dried product to a drying media to reduce both the moisture content to less than 5% moisture and the water activity to less than 0.25 A.sub.w, when measured at 20° C., and to provide the porous powder product, wherein the temperature of the porous powder product in step (iv) does not exceed 50° C.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods of extracting a high protein food product from legumes comprising: milling a supply of legumes to form a fine powder; hydrating the fine powder to form a liquid slurry; separating solids from the liquid slurry to form a milk-like fluid; pasteurising said milk-like fluid to remove unwanted organisms therefrom; filtrating said pasteurised milk-like fluid to remove permeates therefrom to form a substantially liquid product; and removing most of the moisture from the substantially liquid product to generate a high protein food product in the form of a powder.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods of extracting a high protein food product from legumes comprising: milling a supply of legumes to form a fine powder; hydrating the fine powder to form a liquid slurry; separating solids from the liquid slurry to form a milk-like fluid; pasteurising said milk-like fluid to remove unwanted organisms therefrom; filtrating said pasteurised milk-like fluid to remove permeates therefrom to form a substantially liquid product; and removing most of the moisture from the substantially liquid product to generate a high protein food product in the form of a powder.

Disclosed is a method for the manufacture of a spray-dried powder consisting essentially of at least one lacto-N-fucopentaose, the spray-dried powder, its use for the manufacture of nutritional compositions, and nutritional compositions containing the spray-dried powder.

The present invention concerns a process for manufacturing an infant formula product comprising lipid globules having a volume-weighted mode diameter of at least 1.0 μm, wherein the process comprises: (a) subjecting an aqueous mixture having a protein component and a carbohydrate component to a heat treatment step; (b) mixing the aqueous mixture with a lipid component to obtain a oil-in-water emulsion having a total solids content in the range of 45-80 wt %; (d) conveying the homogenized emulsion into an extruder, independently adding digestible carbohydrates and optionally dietary fibres to the extruder and extruding the contents of the extruder to obtain an extruded material; (e) preparing an infant formula product from the extruded material, wherein step (e) involves a step wherein the extruded material is subjected to drying, wherein the drying may be selected from flash drying, vacuum drying, belt drying, microwave drying, IR drying and spray-drying, provided that the spray-drying uses an atomization system employing a two-fluid nozzle or a rotary atomization system, to obtain a spray-dried composition comprising lipid globules having a volume-weighted mode diameter of at least 1.0 μm. Alternatively, the process according to the invention does not employ a mixing step (b), but instead a lipid component is independently added during step (d). The invention further concerns Infant formula product obtainable by the process according to the invention and to a modular system suitable for performing the process according to the invention.

The present invention concerns a process for manufacturing an infant formula product comprising lipid globules having a volume-weighted mode diameter of at least 1.0 μm, wherein the process comprises: (a) subjecting an aqueous mixture having a protein component and a carbohydrate component to a heat treatment step; (b) mixing the aqueous mixture with a lipid component to obtain a oil-in-water emulsion having a total solids content in the range of 45-80 wt %; (d) conveying the homogenized emulsion into an extruder, independently adding digestible carbohydrates and optionally dietary fibres to the extruder and extruding the contents of the extruder to obtain an extruded material; (e) preparing an infant formula product from the extruded material, wherein step (e) involves a step wherein the extruded material is subjected to drying, wherein the drying may be selected from flash drying, vacuum drying, belt drying, microwave drying, IR drying and spray-drying, provided that the spray-drying uses an atomization system employing a two-fluid nozzle or a rotary atomization system, to obtain a spray-dried composition comprising lipid globules having a volume-weighted mode diameter of at least 1.0 μm. Alternatively, the process according to the invention does not employ a mixing step (b), but instead a lipid component is independently added during step (d). The invention further concerns Infant formula product obtainable by the process according to the invention and to a modular system suitable for performing the process according to the invention.

The present invention relates to extrudates which comprise folic acid. To increase storage stability a solid pH buffer is added. Such extrudates have a long shelf-life even if the extrudates comprise in addition to folic acid vitamin B1 and/or vitamin B2.

The present invention concerns a process for manufacturing an infant formula product comprising: (a) subjecting an aqueous mixture having a protein component and a carbohydrate component to a heat treatment step; (b) mixing the aqueous mixture with a lipid component; (c) subjecting the aqueous mixture comprising the lipid component, the carbohydrate component and the heat-treated protein component to a homogenization and emulsification step to obtain a homogenized oil-in-water emulsion having a total solids content in the range of 45-80 wt %; (d) conveying the homogenized emulsion into an extruder, independently adding digestible carbohydrates and optionally dietary fibres to the extruder and extruding the contents of the extruder wherein a gas is injected into the extruder, to obtain an extruded aerated material (e) preparing an infant formula product from the extruded aerated material. The invention further concerns Infant formula product obtainable by the process according to the invention and to a modular system suitable for performing the process according to the invention.