Corn oil processing and products comprising corn oil and corn meal obtained from corn

US6610867B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Renessenz, LLC · US
• CARGILL, INCORPORATED · US

Inventors

• Neal Jakel · Cedar Rapids, US
• Doug Kotowski · Plymouth, US
• Joel Ingvalson · Minneapolis, US
• Michael J. Beaver · Victoria, US
• James F. Ulrich · Highwood, US
• Francis Amore · Plymouth, US
• Michael John Tupy · Crystal, US
• Eugene J. Fox · Dayton, US
• Alexander Patist · Plymouth, US
• Patrick Adu-Peasah · Gurnee, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P60/87
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Corn oil and corn meal obtained from corn are included in useful products. The corn oil is extracted from the corn to form the corn meal. The corn grain process generally includes the steps of cracking corn grain having a total oil content of from about 3% by weight to about 30% by weight and extracting a corn oil from the cracked corn grain. The corn oil is useful for making nutritionally enhanced edible oil or cooking oil, lubricants, biodiesel, fuel, cosmetics and oil-based or oil-containing chemical products. The extracted corn meal is useful for making enhanced animal feed rations, snack food, blended food products, cosmetics, and fermentation broth additive.