PROTEIN FUNCTIONALITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN, AND DOES IT MATTER?
November 28, 2019
How functional are your proteins? How do you know? Does it matter for what you’re doing? These are questions we get asked from time to time, and while…
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Keep Yourself Safe From Scammers
November 21, 2019
Payment fraud from potential scammers is an ongoing problem when sending money in the digital era. Scammers have gotten better about replicating information and it’s getting harder to…
High-Shear Dry Extruded Soy Meals Fed to Dairy: What Happens to Milk Fat?
November 14, 2019
In dairy production, the total amount of milk produced each day per cow is important, but it’s really the components, milk fat and protein, that are the most…
Nutrition is the Key
November 7, 2019
Prior to our September workshop at our headquarters in Grimes, Iowa I had taken a group from Russia for an ExPress® plant tour and a visit to a…
Our New Technologies for Extruded Corn
October 31, 2019
Corn is widely grown in the Southeast Asia region. In some countries like Thailand and Vietnam, corn production is expected to increase in due to expanded acreages driven…
4th Quarter Checklist
October 24, 2019
The beginning of October is a crucial time for businesses large and small as they balance meeting current year targets and planning for the year to come. As…
Explaining Moisture Flash Off
October 17, 2019
During the high-shear, dry extrusion process, a lot of events occur at the same time. The intense shear and pressure mechanically process the product to enhance several characteristics. …
Is Silicon an Essential Nutrient? Implications for Processing
October 10, 2019
It’s well known that dozens of nutrients are essential for health and well-being. Deficiency symptoms of many nutrients have been well-documented over the years. The shocking outcomes of…
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 5, Recommendations
October 3, 2019
This is part 5, and the final post, in the blog series on why higher fat diet formulations are beneficial and should be used to feed animals. The…
LYSINE TO PROTEIN RATIO: AN INDICATOR TO ESTIMATE HEAT DAMAGE IN PROCESSED INGREDIENTS
September 26, 2019
When following instructions is easy, things are done well. For instance, when baking a cake for the first time, you follow a recipe to be exact regarding what…
Quality Amino Acids from Protein are Essential for Life
September 19, 2019
I have an old book on my shelf called “Protein-Calorie Malnutrition”. I don’t even know where I got it, but I think it was being given away as…
Sterilization is one of the key functions of dry extrusion
September 12, 2019
Recently, I was contacted by one of our customers who has been successfully producing shaped feeds with our MS3000 Model medium-shear dry extruder for a number of years.…
Total Lysine Is Not Related to Digestible Lysine in Commodity, Hexane Soybean Meal
September 5, 2019
I often write on the Insta-Pro blog about the importance of quality measures for all ingredients – it’s very difficult to conduct a least-cost diet formulation that’s worth…
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 4, What Comes Along with the Fat?
August 29, 2019
This is part 4 in the blog series on why higher fat diet formulations are beneficial and should be used in your program. For review, here are the…
Die Open Area and How to Use It
August 22, 2019
When creating shaped products such as fish or pet food, an important consideration when making various sized products is the die open area. Once a stable extrusion process…
Benefits of Higher Fat Diets: Part 3, Structural and Functional Changes
August 15, 2019
Higher fat diets are typically beneficial from an efficiency and performance point-of-view, as I wrote about in part 2 of this blog series. Often, the total amount of…
What is degumming?
August 8, 2019
The ExPress® process yields a high quality, highly nutritious oil that can be used as an energy source for many different animals. The value of crude ExPress® oil…
Benefits of Pre-Grinding
August 1, 2019
Many customers ask us if they should crack the soy before extrusion because they have been told by other extruder manufacturers that with “their extruder” they don’t need…