US 11,690,387 B2
Methods and related compositions for manufacturing food and feed
Ignacio Martinez, Lexington, MA (US); Zachary Garo Armen, Boston, MA (US); Christine Cezar, Sammamish, WA (US); Barry Andrew Martin, Boston, MA (US); and Maier Steve Avendano Amado, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Flagship Pioneering Innovations V, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Appl. No. 16/480,037
Filed by Flagship Pioneering Innovations V, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 24, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/015051
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 23, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/140496, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 2, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/584,011, filed on Nov. 9, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/450,038, filed on Jan. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0128856 A1, Apr. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. A23K 10/18 (2016.01); A23K 10/20 (2016.01); A23K 20/142 (2016.01); A23K 50/90 (2016.01); A23L 13/00 (2016.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC A23K 10/18 (2016.05) [A23K 10/20 (2016.05); A23K 20/142 (2016.05); A23K 50/90 (2016.05); A23L 13/00 (2016.08)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for increasing a nutritional profile of an insect, the method comprising:
delivering to the insect an insect comestible composition comprising a feeding substrate and an effective amount of a solution comprising at least 107 cells/mL of an exogenous strain of a methionine-producing bacteria to the insect, wherein the exogenous strain of methionine-producing bacteria populate the insect's microbiome and wherein the insect comestible composition is coated on a plant, a root, a stem, a shoot, a leaf, pollen, or a seed.