Patent granted in India to CENTER OF INNOVATIVE AND APPLIED BIOPROCESSING
Patent number 366820 has been granted to CENTER OF INNOVATIVE AND APPLIED BIOPROCESSING that is titled A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PREBIOTIC OLIGOSACCHARIDES AND NEARLY ZERO CALORIE FUNCTIONAL SUGAR FROM CANE MOLASSES, AND USES OF THE SAME. The present invention discloses a significant enhancement in the known efficacy of the cane industry waste or by-product, cane molasses, by producing high-value biomolecules of reduced calorie, prebiotic and other functional properties of health benefits. The cane industry waste or by-product, cane molasses, does not have any known properties of prebiotic oligosaccharides, and D-allulose (or D-psicose). This patent falls under the category of Biotechnology. Overall, this patent covers a process involving the agro-industrial by-products of the sugar cane industry raw molasses, acceptor molecules extracted from starch industry residue, and the catalytic proteins with dextransucrase and D-psicose 3-epimerase activities as the key ingredients to produce high value non-digestible oligosaccharides and functional monosaccharide sugar- D-psicose.