US 12,446,597 B2
Method for treating insects, in which the cuticles are separated from the soft part of the insects using a belt separator
Sophie Laurent, Paris (FR); Thibault Sarton Du Jonchay, Chevrières (FR); Jean-Gabriel Levon, Paris (FR); Ceclia Socolsky, Paris (FR); Lorena Sanchez, Juvisy (FR); Nathalie Berezina, Paris (FR); Benjamin Armenjon, Paris (FR); and Antoine Hubert, Alfortville (FR)
Assigned to YNSECT, Évry-Courcouronnes (FR)
Appl. No. 16/473,945
Filed by YNSECT, Evry (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 10, 2017, PCT No. PCT/FR2017/050553
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 26, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/122475, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 5, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1663477 (FR), filed on Dec. 28, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0335788 A1, Nov. 7, 2019
Int. Cl. A23K 10/20 (2016.01); A23J 1/02 (2006.01); A23J 3/04 (2006.01); A23K 40/10 (2016.01)
CPC A23K 10/20 (2016.05) [A23J 1/02 (2013.01); A23J 3/04 (2013.01); A23K 40/10 (2016.05)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An insect solid fraction comprising at least 71% by weight proteins and 0.1-2% by weight chitin, said percentages by weight being expressed with respect to the total dry weight of said solid fraction, wherein at least 60% of soluble proteins of the solid fraction have a size less than 550 g/mol.