When purchasing raw materials, we are often focusing only on the final price and nutritional performance. It is our goal to get the minimal price for maximal nutritional uptake. Often, it is forgotten to evaluate possible performance during the processing.
Extrusion is widely used in manufacturing industry (food/feed, plastic, etc.) to produce different shapes, all regards to what customer wants. Food extrusion system is much more complexed compared to plastic extrusion system. A simple reason to that is a number of ingredients used for forming an extruded product, known as pellets or kibbles so predicting…
The history of Vestkorn goes back to 1855, long before anyone of us were born. Businessmen from Stavanger wanted to build a mill and needed power. They found what they were looking for in Tau, and a mill driven by direct water-power was established. Since that time, in 162 years, the renewable energy has been…
Based on their beneficial nutritional and dietary properties, pea products are widely used in human food products. Pea starch concentrate is now also being more widely used in pet food. For example, pea starch concentrates are becoming widely used in non-grain pet food, as a replacement for or in combination with other starches like potato,…
Vestkorn is the biggest producer in Europe of natural concentrates from dry milling of pulses. The privately owned company is also the only one in Europe running this kind of processing plant on a continous basis, 24 hours a day. As every miller knows, contionous operation prepares the ground for the best and most stable…
From January 2015 Vestkorn offers pea fibre in pellets. Vestkorn pea fibre pellets is a 100% Natural product – not processed by the use of chemicals. The ingredient is made out of the hull of cleaned peas. Pelletizing of pea fibre adds several advantages: Increased product safety Cheaper logistics Reduces space needed in your storage facility…
AAFCO: Not allowed to label pea isolates for pea starch and pea protein. From 01 January 2015, only the natural pea products made by dry milling and classifying can be labeled pea protein, pea starch and pea fiber respectively. This is great news for the buyers of pet food. With the new rules, the buyers of petfood…
Pea fractions have the potential to add value to formulations and pea starch concentrate may be used to increase the palatability of pet foods and snack. The test results show that the diet containing the pea starch concentrate had a significantly higher voluntary intake of food. These results appear to be consistent with the work…
The UN declared 2016 to be an International Year of Pulses (IYOP). The goal of the year is to raise the profile of pulses and to celebrate the role of beans, chickpeas, lentils and other pulses in feeding the world. It is a galvanizing moment to draw together key actors to further the contributions pulses make to health,…
The choice of feed and feed strategies has an important effect on gilt and sow performance. In her doctoral project, Signe Lovise Thingnes used three different methodological approaches in order to investigate how gilts and sows are affected by feed and feed strategy during the breeding, gestation and lactation period. The use of pea starch in…
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