Publication no. C-1997-0820-01R |  VIEW ARTICLE

Recovery of Starch and Protein from Wet-Milled Corn Fiber.

Michael K. Dowd (1). (1) Commodity Utilization Research Unit, Southern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124. Mention of trademark or proprietary products does not constitute a guarantee or warranty by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products that may also be suitable. E-mail: <mkdowd@nola.srrc.usda.gov> Cereal Chem. 74(5):589-593. Accepted May 14, 1997. This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc., 1997.

Physical and chemical methods were used to recover starch and protein from wet-milled corn fiber. A single milling of the fiber produced an 18% yield of mill starch. By separating the mill starch with a starch table, 68% of this material was recovered as starch with a protein contamination of 0.66%. Milling increased fine fiber from 4.5% in the starting material to 11.5% after a single grind. Successive additional milling passes modestly increased the mill starch and fine fiber yields with a corresponding decrease in the coarse fiber yield. Pretreatment with combinations of lactic and sulfurous acids had only a small effect on the distribution and composition of the recovered fractions.