	US 11,707,078 B2
	Single cell protein from thermophilic fungi
Wilhelmus Theodorus Antonius Maria de Laat, Breda (NL); and Joan Sebastian Gallego Murillio, Delft (NL)
Assigned to The Protein Brewery B.V., Breda (NL)
Appl. No. 16/323,782
Filed by The Protein Brewery B.V., Breda (NL)
PCT Filed Aug. 11, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/070470 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 7, 2019, PCT Pub. No. WO2018/029353, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017309 (NL), filed on Aug. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0174809 A1, Jun. 13, 2019
Int. Cl. A23K 10/16 (2016.01); A23L 31/00 (2016.01); A23L 33/195 (2016.01); C12N 1/14 (2006.01); A23J 1/00 (2006.01); C12R 1/645 (2006.01); C12R 1/845 (2006.01)

CPC A23L 31/00 (2016.08) [A23J 1/008 (2013.01); A23K 10/16 (2016.05); A23L 33/195 (2016.08); C12N 1/14 (2013.01); C12N 1/145 (2021.05); A23V 2250/54 (2013.01); C12R 2001/645 (2021.05); C12R 2001/845 (2021.05)]

19 Claims

1. A process for producing single cell protein (SCP), the process comprising the steps of:

a) growing a thermophilic fungus of the species Rhizomucor pusillus in a medium containing a fermentable carbon-rich feedstock; wherein the fungus is grown in submerged culture under non-sterile conditions at a temperature higher than 45° C. and a pH of less than 3.8; and,

b) recovering SCP from the medium in the form of biomass of the thermophilic fungus grown in step a) wherein the protein content of the biomass is at least 40% (w/v) on dry matter basis.