Rice Protein
Besides starch, rice protein is another rice product which can be exploited efficiently using process lines from GEA Westfalia Separator. Industrial uses for rice protein have now become very varied. As a vegetable protein component for a high-content food supplement, this biological protein is of great significance to professional sportspeople in particular. Cosmetic lifestyle products such as special shampoos or anti-ageing creams also contain rice protein as natural ingredient. This protein can be obtained as part of the process to obtain starch.
Integrated process line from GEA Westfalia Separator for obtaining rice protein
In obtaining rice starch by the wet process, a protein solution is formed in the first washing stage as a third phase in addition to starch milk and fine fibers. Adding acid precipitates the protein out of the solution so that a decanter can separate the rice protein and dewater it. The aqueous phase then runs through a special clarifier in order to obtain the residual protein it still contains.