From chicken feed to nutritious antioxidants (IMAGE)

KTH, Royal Institute of Technology

From chicken feed to nutritious antioxidants

Caption

Of the more than 120 million metric tons of corn starch produced each year, nearly 15 percent is discarded or fed to chickens and other animals. Francisco Vilaplana has developed a method to generate nutritional value from what he describes as "a huge sidestream."

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David Callahan

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