JP2002523068A - Animal feed supplements - Google Patents

Abstract

  (57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] Animal feed nutritional supplement The present invention relates to a food suitable for animals and humans used as a food supplement. The nutritional supplement is in the form of a dispersion, molasses in an amount of 40% to 90% by weight and 5% to 5% by weight in water containing 5% or less by weight of the dispersion of phosphatide as a dispersant. It consists of a dispersion of saturated or unsaturated fat in an amount of 40% by weight. The present invention also provides a method for producing the nutritional supplement.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to food products for animals including humans. In particular, the present invention relates to food supplements comprising molasses and fat. This nutritional supplement is made of molasses (
It is produced by using a dispersing agent so that the fat can be combined with the molasses).

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Grazing lands are not considered to always be able to feed livestock. this is,
Particularly during lactating livestock, livestock livestock, during the transportation of livestock, and during drought. In such circumstances, animal feed must be replenished.

[0003] The use of molasses and fats in animal feed supplements is known. Molasses and fats are both high energy sources, but the manner in which they are metabolized is significantly different. Molasses, which is of high value as a carbohydrate, is metabolized into energy, but little or no source of animal fat storage. The main animal contribution of molasses is to increase energy, and thus increase baiting behavior in free range. Fat as part of the diet also becomes energy, but is metabolized in such a way that the resulting fatty acids are absorbed into the body and resynthesized as body fat, resulting in the desired weight gain.

[0004] Fat is the richest food of all food ingredients and has the highest caloric density. The addition of fat to the animal's diet increases the texture but delays digestion. It is directly related to food satisfaction in animals such as cattle and reduces energy-consuming bait behavior. Fat as a feed ingredient for cattle is also a reliable source of essential fatty acids required during pregnancy and lactation. Many vitamins are fat-soluble and increase intake when part of a diet containing fat. Carbohydrates and fats also
It is important for human health and nutrients for similar reasons as described in the previous section. Molasses and fat combinations can also be used as high energy nutritional supplements prior to strenuous exercise or as a cost effective food for relieving hunger.

[0005] A problem with molasses and fat blended foods is that one cannot easily mix these two components because molasses is a carbohydrate and hydrophilic and fat is hydrophobic. It is. Therefore, special procedures are required to prepare a nutritional supplement containing fat and molasses.

US Pat. No. 3,895,117 discloses the preparation of a dispersion of fats and molasses using a non-ionic compound such as polyoxyethyl (20) sorbitan monooleate or polyethylene glycol (400) monooleate as a dispersant. Has been described. International patent application PCT / SE97 / 00142 (publication number WO / 9728896) also describes a dispersion of fat in molasses for use as feed. But PCT / SE97 / 001
In the case of 42, the dispersant is a nonionic ethoxylate with a molecular weight of 1,500 to 15,000.

[0007] The dispersants described in PCT / SE97 / 00142 are mineral oils and are therefore undesirable additives in feeds. The dispersants of US Pat. No. 3,895,117 are also compounds not normally found in animal feed. Therefore, it is desirable to provide an available dispersion of fat and molasses, such as tallow, using a dispersant that is a substance commonly found in animal diets and can also be used as human food. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to incorporate dispersants commonly found in animal or human diets,
It is to provide a food supplement comprising a dispersion of molasses and fat.

[0009] The first invention relates to molasses and 40% to 90% by weight of molasses and 5% by weight in water containing 5% by weight or less of phosphatide as a dispersant of a dispersion constituting a food supplement. Provided is a food supplement comprising a dispersion of 液 40% by weight of saturated fat or unsaturated fat.

A second aspect of the present invention is a) a step of heating fat to 45 ° C. to 60 ° C. to liquefy the fat, and b) a step of mixing liquid phosphatide and the heated fat with a weight of phosphatide and fat. Parts) mixing at a ratio of 1: 300 to 1:20; c) cooling the emulsion formed in step (b) to less than 42 ° C. and further mixing the emulsion with molasses but finally Mixing to obtain a proportion of from 40% to 90% molasses, 5% to 40% fat, and 5% or less phosphatide in the composition by weight. I will provide a.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION As used herein, the term “consists”, ie, “comprise” or “comp”
Variations on terms such as "rising" or "comprised" are meant to include the stated consistent meaning, unless the context of use requires exclusive interpretation of the term.

As used herein, the term “food supplement” also includes dietary supplements, usually referred to as “feed supplements”.

[0013] It has been found by the present inventor that phosphatides can be used to form dispersions of molasses and fats for use as feed supplements. Suitable phosphatides, ie, phosphoglycerides, include lecithin and kephalin.
These compounds can be from any source, but are preferably derived from plant sources. Preferred phosphatides have the following structure

Embedded image Wherein R is independently the residue of a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid such as palmitic acid, stearic acid, palmitoleic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid. Lecithin is also known as phosphatidylcholine.

Molasses, a by-product of the sugar processing process, is typically incorporated into food supplements in amounts ranging from 50% to 60% by weight of the total composition of the supplement. . A preferred amount is about 35% by weight.

The fat in the food supplement of the present invention is, in a general sense, an oil that can be derived from animal fats (tallow tallow) or vegetable oils, including oleic acid, linoleic acid, and palmitic acid. The amount of fat in the food supplement is typically in the range of 20% to 30% by weight of the total composition. The preferred amount is about 20% by weight
It is.

The general steps in the method for producing a food supplement using the second method of the present invention are shown below.

[0017] 1. The individual components required for the final composition of the auxiliary are weighed separately.

[0018] 2. Depending on the particular type of fat, the fat is warmed to a temperature between 45C and 60C to obtain a viscosity suitable for mixing with other ingredients. To avoid autoxidation, the fat is not heated above 60 ° C.

[0019] 3. Then, a dispersant consisting of phosphatides is added to the heated fat and the components are mixed to obtain an emulsion. Usually, a mixing time of 20 to 30 minutes is appropriate.

[0020] 4. Molasses is then added to the cooled emulsified fat. Continue mixing (typically 30-45 minutes) to obtain a homogeneous mixture. The emulsion is cooled to below 42 ° C. prior to the addition of molasses. This is because molasses is unstable above this temperature.

[0021] 5. If desired, add other additives.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the above manufacturing method includes a batch mixing system. A continuous mixing system can also be used. In such a method, the specific gravity and viscosity of each component are first measured. The components of the composition to be formulated are individually pumped to the points of the metering sensor and then placed in a fixed, continuous chemical mixer. The sensor determines the pump speed and adjusts the proportions of the components fed to the mixer according to preset parameters.

The food supplement of the present invention can include other additives known to those skilled in the art. These additives include minerals, trace elements, antibiotics, and nitrogen sources such as urea. Additives may be included at or below 7% by weight of the nutritional supplement.

One skilled in the art will recognize that a barrier to the combination of fat and molasses is the adhesion of hydrated molasses to the micellar surface of the fat in the nutritional supplement. . The present invention overcomes this problem by adding a phosphatide such as lecithin as an emulsifier or dispersant to the mixture of molasses and fat.
An advantage of phosphatide as a dispersant is that phosphatide is a compound commonly found in animal feed or human food that differs from the prior art compounds described above. Another advantage of using phosphatides such as lecithin is that phosphatides are natural antioxidants and also engage the hydrophobic fatty chains with hydrophilic and positive charges with hydrophilic groups. Is to serve as an amphoteric surfactant.

Having described the invention, examples of food supplements are given below. However, it is not limited to this.

Example 1 Molasses was obtained from a regional sugarcane press in the Townsville, Queensland region of Australia. Tallow was similarly obtained from a local meat processing plant. Lecithin and other additives were commercially available.

A 10 ton batch was prepared by first setting each component of the composition. The tallow was heated to 45 ° C. to obtain the desired viscosity of 1000 centistokes and 2,300 kg thereof was pumped into the mixing tank. 100 kg of lecithin as a phosphatide solution was fed to the mixing tank and mixed with the above tallow. After emulsifying beef tallow, 5,300 kg of molasses (1,900 kg of water)
(Heated to 35 ° C.) was added to the mixing tank to adjust the viscosity. In the resulting mixture,
300 kg of a 40% diluted solution of urea and 100 kg of mineral trace elements were added. Mixing was continued until a homogeneous mixture was obtained and transferred to a storage tank.

The feed supplement prepared by the above method comprises the following components on a weight% basis.

Molasses 53% Beef tallow 25% Lecithin 1% Trace elements 3% Urea 3% Water 19% A nutritional supplement of the formulation shown in the following examples is prepared using the same raw materials as the composition of Example 1. Obtained. The methods used to prepare these compositions were the same as in Example 1 unless otherwise specified.

Example 2 A 10 ton batch was prepared. That is, 2,000 kg of heated beef tallow (t
allow) was fed to the mixing tank and then 50 kg of lecithin was fed. After thoroughly mixing these components, 5,950 kg of molasses was blended into the emulsified tallow.
2,000 kg of a 34% diluted solution of urea was added to complete the composition and transferred from the mixing tank to the storage tank.

The nutritional supplement prepared as described above comprises the following components on a weight% basis.

Molasses 59.5% Tallow 20% Lecithin 0.5% Urea 6.8% Water 13.2% Example 3 A formulation of the same ingredients as the formulation of Example 3 was prepared using a continuous mixing method. Prepared.

The tallow storage tank was heated to reduce the viscosity of the tallow. Urea was supplied as a 34% by weight aqueous solution, along with lecithin and molasses feeds. Tallow and lecithin were pumped through a metering sensor to a fixed mixer. Molasses and urea solutions were sent through the adjusting sensor points and combined with the tallow / lecithin mixture at the head of another stationary mixer. All components delivered were transferred to a storage tank as a homogeneous mixture.

The formulations prepared by the continuous mixing method consist of the following components on a weight% basis:

Molasses 59.5% Tallow 20% Lecithin 0.5% Urea 6.8% Water 13.2% Example 4 A batch of a 10 ton formulation was prepared. 500 kg of heated beef tallow was fed into the mixing tank, followed by 30 kg of lecithin. After these components were thoroughly mixed, 9,000 kg of molasses was blended into the emulsified beef tallow. 370 liters of water and 100 kg of mineral auxiliaries were added to the resulting mixture and pumped from the mixing tank to the storage tank.

The above nutritional supplement consists of the following components on a weight% basis:

Molasses 90% Tallow 5% Lecithin 0.3% Trace Elements 1% Water 3.7% Example 5 A batch of a 10 ton formulation was prepared. 4,000 kg of heated beef tallow was pumped into the mixing tank and then 200 kg of lecithin. After these components were thoroughly mixed, 4,000 kg of molasses was blended into the emulsified tallow. 1,700 kg of a urea / water mixture and 100 kg of mineral auxiliaries were added. The finished formulation was pumped into a storage tank.

The nutritional supplement prepared by the above method consists of the following components on a weight% basis:

Molasses 40% Tallow 40% Lecithin 2% Trace Elements 1% Urea 6.8% Water 10.2% Formulation of Example 3 was prepared using a batch mixing method and using a continuous mixing method. One skilled in the art will recognize that the formulations of other examples can be prepared.

The food supplement composition prepared according to the above example is a liquid having a black, sweet scent, and can be stored at room temperature when the container is sealed. The composition can be transferred from the storage tank to another container by pumping or pouring.

The animal feed supplements of the present invention can be advantageously shared with dried edible bran or applied by pouring or spraying on edible bran and mixing them. The nutritional supplement of the present invention improves the texture of edible bran and the availability as feed. About 1.5 kg / day for animals such as cattle
Animal feeding rates are recommended.

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Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. 40% to 90% by weight molasses and 5% to 40% by weight of water containing phosphatide as a dispersant in an amount of 5% by weight or less of the dispersion constituting the food supplement. A food supplement comprising a dispersion of a saturated fat or an unsaturated fat. 2. The molasses is 50% to 6% by weight based on the weight of the nutritional supplement.
The nutritional supplement according to claim 1, which is included in an amount of 0% by weight. 3. The nutritional supplement of claim 1, wherein the molasses is included in an amount of about 53% by weight based on the weight of the nutritional supplement. 4. The nutritional supplement according to claim 1, wherein the fat is tallow. 5. The nutritional supplement according to claim 1, wherein the fat is a vegetable oil. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fat is 20% to 3% by weight based on the weight of the nutritional supplement.
The nutritional supplement according to claim 1, which is included in an amount of 0% by weight. 7. The fat comprises the fat in an amount of about 20% by weight of the supplement.
The nutritional supplement according to claim 6. 8. The nutritional supplement according to claim 1, further comprising an additive selected from the group consisting of minerals, trace elements, antibiotics, and nitrogen sources. 9. The nutritional supplement according to claim 8, wherein said nitrogen source is urea. 10. The nutritional supplement according to claim 8, wherein said additive is present in an amount of 7% by weight or less of said nutritional supplement. 11. Dispersing 40% to 90% by weight molasses and 5% to 40% by weight tallow in water containing lecithin as a dispersant in an amount of 5% by weight or less of the dispersion. A food supplement consisting of a dispersion consisting of: 12. The nutritional supplement according to claim 11, further comprising urea in an amount of 7% by weight or less of the nutritional supplement. 13. A process for producing a food supplement, comprising: a) heating fat to 45 ° C. to 60 ° C. to liquefy said fat; and b) liquid phosphatide and said heated fat, Mixing the phosphatide to fat at a weight ratio of 1: 300 to 1:20; c) cooling the emulsion formed in step (b) to less than 42 ° C. Mixing with molasses but mixing so as to obtain a proportion of 40% to 90% molasses, 5% to 40% fat and 5% or less phosphatide in the final composition by weight. A method for producing a nutritional supplement. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the components of the nutritional supplement are mixed in a batch mode. 15. The composition of claim 1, wherein the components of the nutritional supplement are mixed continuously.
3. The method according to 3.