Abstract: Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions comprising oxygen tolerant strains of Megasphaera elsdenii and methods of making and using the same to promote improvement of one or more metrics in an animal, such as increased bodyweight/carcass gain, increased feed intake, decreased feed conversion ratio (FCR), decreased medical costs, decreased transition period, decrease use of antibiotics, and reduced mortality.

Abstract: Provided herein, inter alia, are granules for inclusion in feed or feed additive compositions as well as methods for making and using the same for improving the performance of a ruminant animal with respect to one or more of improved feed conversion ratio (FCR), improved weight gain, improved feed efficiency, improved carcass quality, and/or improved milk production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the solubilisation of cereal bran, for preparing compositions comprising soluble fractions of cereal bran and the use of these compositions comprising solubilised cereal bran for the preparation of food products, such as bread.

Abstract: The present teachings provide a method of making a yogurt product having increased thickness having the steps of providing milk; adding sucrose to the milk to form sweetened milk; contacting the sweetened milk with a glucosyl transferase to form an insoluble glucose polymer; inoculating with a starter culture; and fermenting to provide the yogurt product having increased thickness. Additional methods are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions using glycoside hydrolases, such as an alpha-L-fucosidases, to prevent and/or treat a pathogenic infection and/or diarrhea in an animal wherein the pathogenic infection is caused by a pathogen capable of binding to an animal intestinal cell wherein said binding of the pathogen is dependent on the presence of a pathogen binding site having at least one glycan structure substituted with at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a glycoside hydrolase capable of removing the at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety from the pathogen binding site.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions using glycoside hydrolases, such as an alpha-L-fucosidases, to prevent and/or treat a pathogenic infection and/or diarrhea in an animal wherein the pathogenic infection is caused by a pathogen capable of binding to an animal intestinal cell wherein said binding of the pathogen is dependent on the presence of a pathogen binding site having at least one glycan structure substituted with at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a glycoside hydrolase capable of removing the at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety from the pathogen binding site.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the solubilisation of cereal bran, for preparing compositions comprising soluble fractions of cereal bran and the use of these compositions comprising solubilised cereal bran for the preparation of food products, such as bread.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the solubilisation of cereal bran, for preparing compositions comprising soluble fractions of cereal bran and the use of these compositions comprising solubilised cereal bran for the preparation of food products, such as bread.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions using glycoside hydrolases, such as an alpha-L-fucosidases, to prevent and/or treat a pathogenic infection and/or diarrhea in an animal wherein the pathogenic infection is caused by a pathogen capable of binding to an animal intestinal cell wherein said binding of the pathogen is dependent on the presence of a pathogen binding site having at least one glycan structure substituted with at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a glycoside hydrolase capable of removing the at least one alpha-1,2-L-fucose moiety from the pathogen binding site.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a fermented milk product. The method comprises the steps of treating a milk substrate with a low pH sensitive peptidase and a microorganism, and allowing the treated milk substrate to ferment to produce the fermented milk product.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for preparation of malted cereals, the improved malted cereals and their use, e.g., in the production of food and beverages.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and uses for treating pyropheophytin-containing compositions, particularly in order to remove pyropheophytin therefrom. The compositions are typically plant, algal, or bacterial derived products such as vegetable oils. The method comprises a step of contacting the compositions with an enzyme having pyropheophytinase activity. Also provided are related apparatus and products for performing such methods and uses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of lipids in lipid-containing plant material, such as cereal bran for the generation of functional lipids. The present invention further relates to the preparation of compositions comprising such functional lipids as well as the use of these compositions comprising functional lipids and other functional compounds derived from the action of lipid modifying enzymes for the preparation of composition suitable for the preparation of bio-ethanol as well as food products, such as bread.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, specifically polypeptides having transgalactosylating activity and nucleic acids encoding these, and their uses in e.g. dairy product.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a variant lipid acyltransferase enzyme by expressing a nucleotide sequence encoding a lipid acyltransferase which may comprise at least one modification at a position(s) which corresponds in the encoded amino acid sequence to an amino acid(s) located in a) the canyon region of the enzyme (i.e. preferably amino acid residues 31, 27, 85, 86, 119, and 120); and/or b) insertion site 1 (i.e. amino acid residues 22-36) and/or c) insertion site 2 (i.e. amino acid residues 74-88), wherein the canyon region, insertion site 1 and/or insertion site 2 are defined as that region which when aligned based on primary or tertiary structure corresponds to the canyon region, insertion site 1 or insertion site 2 (or the corresponding amino acid residues taught above) of the enzyme shown herein as SEQ ID No. 16 or 6 in a host organism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, specifically polypeptides having transgalactosylating activity and nucleic acids encoding these, and their uses in e.g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to amidase enzymes and a feed or food additive comprising the amidase enzyme capable of degrading ochratoxin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, specifically polypeptides having transgalactosylating activity and nucleic acids encoding these, and their uses in e.g. dairy product.

Abstract: There is provided a process for the prevention and/or reduction of acrylamide formation and/or acrylamide precursor formation in a foodstuff containing (i) a protein, a peptide or an amino acid and (ii) a reducing sugar, the process comprising contacting the foodstuff with an enzyme capable of oxidising a reducing group of the sugar.

Abstract: The present invention relate to a method for producing keratin hydrolysate comprising the step of: i) admixing keratin material with a protease and a non-sulphur containing surfactant, as well as keratin hydrolysate so produced and uses thereof.