Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic product by growing non-recombinant yeast under aerobic conditions, in a medium that includes crude glycerol, as one possible carbon source to produce a yeast product. The yeast product can be processed to obtain such nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic products as yeast paste, yeast metabolites, carbohydrates, proteins, functional proteins, nucleotides, yeast autolysates, yeast extract, yeast cell walls, beta-glucans, mannans or a product derived from a mineralized yeast product.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 16, 2009
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2014
Assignee:
Bio Processing Australia Pty Ltd.
Inventors:
Robin Fieldhouse, Donald Finlay MacLennan, David Graham MacLennan, Mary Elizabeth MacLennan
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic product by growing non-recombinant yeast under aerobic conditions, in a medium that includes crude glycerol, as one possible carbon source to produce a yeast product. The yeast product can be processed to obtain such nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic products as yeast paste, yeast metabolites, carbohydrates, proteins, functional proteins, nucleotides, yeast autolysates, yeast extract, yeast cell walls, beta-glucans, mannans or a product derived from a mineralized yeast product.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 16, 2009
Publication date:
February 24, 2011
Applicant:
BIO PROCESSING AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
Inventors:
Robin Fieldhouse, Donald Finlay MacLennan, David Graham MacLennan, Mary Elizabeth MacLennan