A method is provided for fermenting and dehydrating food items such as nuts and seeds to create novel postbiotic foods with numerous benefits. The method comprises preparing a brine solution and adding it with the food item, a sugar product, and select live bacteria cultures to a fermentation vessel. The vessel ferments for 10-14 days at 60-64? F. until a pH of 3.3-4.0 is achieved. The food item is strained, placed on dehydrator trays, and dried at two temperatures to reduce moisture. The process increases nutrition, digestibility, gut health, and safety by reducing antinutrients, agricultural pollutants, toxins, and pathogens by over 5 logs, exceeding pasteurization requirements. The dehydrated food can be packaged or further processed into items like nut butters. The method generates durable, functional nutrition without damaging heat or chemicals.

The invention provides a seed treatment method comprising: (i) mixing starting materials (7) comprising an aqueous liquid (2), anaerobic bacteria (1), a substrate (3) for the anaerobic bacteria, and seeds (4), to provide a mixture (10) having a void volume (15) between the seeds, wherein at least 50% of the void volume comprises the aqueous liquid, (ii) storing the mixture in a condition to prevent oxygen from entering the mixture during a treatment time, to provide treated seeds (9), wherein the treatment time is at least 6 hours and at maximum 14 days, and (iii) collecting the treated seeds (9) from the mixture (10).

The invention provides a seed treatment method comprising: (i) mixing starting materials (7) comprising an aqueous liquid (2), anaerobic bacteria (1), a substrate (3) for the anaerobic bacteria, and seeds (4), to provide a mixture (10) having a void volume (15) between the seeds, wherein at least 50% of the void volume comprises the aqueous liquid, (ii) storing the mixture in a condition to prevent oxygen from entering the mixture during a treatment time, to provide treated seeds (9), wherein the treatment time is at least 6 hours and at maximum 14 days, and (iii) collecting the treated seeds (9) from the mixture (10).

The present invention is directed to an integrated system of improving nut product safety, quality and production costs. Formulations and methods are provided for reducing pathogen contamination of nuts, improving storage stability of stored nuts and reducing refrigeration costs, and enhancing shelling operations by improving the contrast between nut shell fragments and nutmeats. The formulations may be used individually or in combination to provide all three commercial benefits of reduced bioburden, enhanced storage stability, and greater sorting efficiency of nutmeat from shell. The materials for the formulations disclosed herein are mostly derived from the waste materials of the species of tree that nut is harvested from and/or from other natural sources.

The present invention is directed to an integrated system of improving nut product safety, quality and production costs. Formulations and methods are provided for reducing pathogen contamination of nuts, improving storage stability of stored nuts and reducing refrigeration costs, and enhancing shelling operations by improving the contrast between nut shell fragments and nutmeats. The formulations may be used individually or in combination to provide all three commercial benefits of reduced bioburden, enhanced storage stability, and greater sorting efficiency of nutmeat from shell. The materials for the formulations disclosed herein are mostly derived from the waste materials of the species of tree that nut is harvested from and/or from other natural sources.

This invention relates to agriculture, more specifically, to processing of grain, pulse and cereal crop grains, in particular, to a composition for the treatment of grain, pulse and cereal crop grains before processing wherein the composition includes a combination of enzyme preparations containing cellulases, cellobiohydrolases, xylanases, catalases, phytases, peroxidases, oxidoreduetases, laccases, esterases and antioxidants. An object of the present technical solution is to increase the output of flour or grit mills with a concurrent gain in the quality and dietary value of the milled products.

This invention relates to agriculture, more specifically, to processing of grain, pulse and cereal crop grains, in particular, to a composition for the treatment of grain, pulse and cereal crop grains before processing wherein the composition includes a combination of enzyme preparations containing cellulases, cellobiohydrolases, xylanases, catalases, phytases, peroxidases, oxidoreduetases, laccases, esterases and antioxidants. An object of the present technical solution is to increase the output of flour or grit mills with a concurrent gain in the quality and dietary value of the milled products.

What is disclosed is a method of reducing undesirable concentrations of microorganisms without the use of man-made antibiotics, comprising the steps of: introducing a quantity of fermentable carbohydrate; sugar or cellulose to an aqueous system; introducing a quantity of desirable microorganism to the aqueous system; introducing at least one acid into the aqueous system, wherein the at least one acid is selected from the group consisting of hops acid, organic acid, or a combination of hops acid and organic acid; and introducing a compound comprised of Lauryl-L-arginine ethyl ester monohydrochloride (LAE) into the aqueous system. The use of LAE as a preservative of distiller's grains and solubles is also disclosed.

What is disclosed is a method of reducing undesirable concentrations of microorganisms without the use of man-made antibiotics, comprising the steps of: introducing a quantity of fermentable carbohydrate; sugar or cellulose to an aqueous system; introducing a quantity of desirable microorganism to the aqueous system; introducing at least one acid into the aqueous system, wherein the at least one acid is selected from the group consisting of hops acid, organic acid, or a combination of hops acid and organic acid; and introducing a compound comprised of Lauryl-L-arginine ethyl ester monohydrochloride (LAE) into the aqueous system. The use of LAE as a preservative of distiller's grains and solubles is also disclosed.

A method of controlling or preventing infestation of plants by fungi, wherein a fungicidally effective amount of cyclothiazomycin C, is applied to the plants, to parts thereof or the locus thereof.